Bill Text: NY S06027 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates an exception to school bussing requirements in the city of New York for restoration of past services; requires school bus transportation to be provided to certain seventh and eighth graders in the city of New York.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-29 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8683B [S06027 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6027
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 4, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 creating an  exception
         to  school busing requirements in the city of New York for restoration
         of past services
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the educa-
    2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 171 of the laws of 1996, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    c. The foregoing provisions of  this  subdivision  shall  not  require
    5  transportation to be provided for children residing within a city school
    6  district,  but if provided by such district pursuant to other provisions
    7  of this chapter, such transportation shall be  offered  equally  to  all
    8  such  children  in like circumstances; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN CITIES
    9  WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, EXCEPTIONS SHALL BE GRANTED TO
   10  ALLOW THE USE OF EXISTING CONTRACT BUS SERVICE PROVIDED FOR CHILDREN  IN
   11  ELEMENTARY  GRADES  BY  PUPILS IN GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT, BUT ONLY WHERE
   12  SUCH USE IS AN EXTENSION OR REINSTATEMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDED PRIOR TO
   13  SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND TEN, IN WHICH  CASE  THE  REQUIREMENTS  OF  THIS
   14  PARAGRAPH  SHALL  NOT  APPLY;  provided  further  that  in  city  school
   15  districts in cities having a population of one hundred twenty-five thou-
   16  sand inhabitants or less such  transportation,  if  provided,  shall  be
   17  subject  to  the  mileage  limitations prescribed in paragraph a of this
   18  subdivision or such greater or lesser limitations as are approved by the
   19  board of education prior to July first, nineteen hundred  ninety-six  or
   20  as  otherwise  authorized  in  subdivision twelve of section twenty-five
   21  hundred three of this chapter. City school districts with  a  population
   22  of  more  than  two  hundred  twenty-five  thousand  and less than three
   23  hundred thousand, according  to  the  nineteen  hundred  eighty  federal
   24  census, which elect to provide transportation shall do so in accord with
   25  the  grade  and distance provisions of this subdivision including trans-
   26  portation outside the city limits.
   27    S 2. 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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