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.
LBD03747-01-9