Bill Text: NY S04751 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows certain school districts to provide home-to-school transportation based upon patterns of actual ridership without regard to the number of students eligible for transportation and the number of seats otherwise required by law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S04751 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S04751-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4751 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 18, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- 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 student transportation THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 3635 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION, IN 4 SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVING AN AREA OF FORTY SQUARE MILES OR LESS, IF THE 5 BOARD OF EDUCATION DETERMINES, BASED UPON HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE, THAT 6 THERE IS A CONSISTENT PATTERN OF ELIGIBLE PUPILS NOT USING THE TRANSPOR- 7 TATION PROVIDED BY THE DISTRICT, THE BOARD, IN ITS DISCRETION, MAY ENACT 8 A POLICY TO PROVIDE STUDENT TRANSPORTATION BASED UPON PATTERNS OF ACTUAL 9 RIDERSHIP WITHOUT REGARD TO: 10 A. THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ELIGIBLE FOR TRANSPORTATION; AND 11 B. THE NUMBER OF SEATS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE REQUIRED FOR THEM UNDER 12 PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION. 13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01522-01-1