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

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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]

Download: New_York-2011-S06027-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6027--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 4, 2012
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       Introduced by Sens. LANZA, GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- commit-
         tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
         mitted to said committee
       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 A REINSTATEMENT OF A SERVICE IN THE SCHOOL YEAR BEGINNING IN
   13  SEPTEMBER,  TWO  THOUSAND  NINE AND ENDING IN JUNE, TWO THOUSAND TEN, IN
   14  WHICH CASE THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT APPLY;  provided
   15  further  that  in city school districts in cities having a population of
   16  one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or  less  such  transporta-
   17  tion,   if  provided,  shall  be  subject  to  the  mileage  limitations
   18  prescribed in paragraph a of this subdivision or such greater or  lesser
   19  limitations  as  are  approved  by  the board of education prior to July
   20  first, nineteen hundred ninety-six or as otherwise authorized in  subdi-
   21  vision twelve of section twenty-five hundred three of this chapter. City
   22  school  districts with a population of more than two hundred twenty-five
   23  thousand and less than three hundred thousand, according to the nineteen
   24  hundred eighty federal census, which  elect  to  provide  transportation
   25  shall  do  so  in  accord with the grade and distance provisions of this
   26  subdivision including transportation 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.
                                                                  LBD13465-06-2