Bill Text: NY S08083 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that reimbursement costs incurred by licensed transportation carriers in the city of New York may include fringe benefits, including, but not limited to, qualified tuition reductions allowable under federal law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-17 - referred to education [S08083 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S08083-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8083
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 10, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation  to  transportation
          reimbursement  of  certain  costs  incurred by licensed transportation
          carriers in the city of New York
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1 of section 3627 of the
     2  education law, as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter  56  of  the
     3  laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  reimbursing the cost incurred by licensed transportation carriers
     5  pursuant to contracts, which may include fringe benefits including,  but
     6  not  limited  to,  qualified  tuition reductions allowable under federal
     7  law, with such school district for providing  transportation  for  those
     8  children  attending  public and nonpublic schools in grades kindergarten
     9  through six who remain at the same school for which  they  are  enrolled
    10  for  regularly scheduled academic classes from half-past nine o'clock in
    11  the morning or earlier until four o'clock in the afternoon or later,  on
    12  weekdays,  and  reside at least one mile from their school of attendance
    13  for grades three through six, and at  least  one-half  mile  from  their
    14  school of attendance for grades kindergarten through two.
    15    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 3623-a of the education law is amended
    16  by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
    17    g. For transportation contracts provided pursuant to  section  thirty-
    18  six hundred twenty-seven of this part, which may include fringe benefits
    19  including,  but  not  limited to, qualified tuition reductions allowable
    20  under federal law.
    21    § 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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