STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1686
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, CARROLL, D. ROSENTHAL, CYMBROWITZ,
          WEPRIN,  QUART,  BICHOTTE, CUSICK, SIMOTAS, LENTOL, RICHARDSON -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing  transporta-
          tion for children with handicapping conditions
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 4402 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 646 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    d. Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law,  such  board  shall
     5  provide  suitable  transportation up to a distance of fifty miles to and
     6  from a nonpublic school which a  child  with  a  handicapping  condition
     7  attends  if  such child has been so identified by the local committee on
     8  special education [and such child attends such school for the purpose of
     9  receiving services or programs similar to special  educational  programs
    10  recommended for such child by the local committee on special education].
    11    § 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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