Bill Text: NY S04434 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the school bus mandate relief act authorizing school districts, in their discretion, to provide student transportation based upon patterns of actual ridership.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S04434 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04434-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4434
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     April 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  enacting  the  school
         bus  mandate relief act authorizing school boards to reduce the number
         of seats provided for student transportation
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "school bus
    2  mandate relief act".
    3    S  2.  Section  3635  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    4  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    5    8. A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE, OR REGULATION,
    6  THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY, AT  THE  DISCRETION  OF
    7  THE  BOARD,  BASED  UPON  A  DOCUMENTED  HISTORY OF THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF
    8  RIDERS IN EACH OF THE PRECEDING THREE YEARS SHOWING A CONSISTENT PATTERN
    9  OF  ELIGIBLE  PUPILS  NOT  USING  THE  TRANSPORTATION  PROVIDED  BY  THE
   10  DISTRICT, ENACT A POLICY TO PROVIDE STUDENT TRANSPORTATION WITH A CAPAC-
   11  ITY  OF  NOT  LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY PERCENT OF THE MAXIMUM ACTUAL
   12  NUMBER OF RIDERS DURING SUCH THREE YEAR PERIOD.
   13    B. THE DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF RIDERS  IN  EACH  OF
   14  THE  PRECEDING  THREE  YEARS  OF  ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE BOARD OF
   15  EDUCATION HAS ENACTED THE POLICY  AUTHORIZED  BY  PARAGRAPH  A  OF  THIS
   16  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  BE FILED WITH THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION EACH YEAR
   17  THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ENACTS A POLICY OF PROVIDING STUDENT  TRANSPORTATION
   18  BASED ON PATTERNS OF THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF RIDERS.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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