Bill Text: NY S08585 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes school districts to use school transportation aid to pay for the cost and expenses of transporting and delivering meals, homework materials and any other school materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - referred to education [S08585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08585-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8585--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 16, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to authorizing school
          districts to use school transportation aid to pay  for  the  cost  and
          expenses  of transporting and delivering meals, homework materials and
          any other school materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 3622-a 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  to  the  contrary,  the
     4  transportation  of meals,  educational materials, and any other  school-
     5  related  materials for the period that began with the declaration of the
     6  state of emergency declared as a result of the  COVID-19  pandemic  that
     7  was  executed  in  executive  order  two hundred two that began on March
     8  seventh, two thousand twenty.
     9    § 2. Paragraph e of subdivision 1 of section 3623-a of  the  education
    10  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 12 to read as follows:
    11    (12)  notwithstanding  any other provision of law to the contrary, the
    12  transportation  of meals,  educational materials, and any other  school-
    13  related materials for the period that began with the declaration of  the
    14  state  of  emergency  declared as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that
    15  was executed in executive order two hundred  two  that  began  on  March
    16  seventh, two thousand twenty.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16721-02-0