Bill Text: NY A02018 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants from changing the transportation accommodation of an older sibling who lives with and goes to either the same school as or a school located at the same place as a younger sibling who shares the same transportation accommodation.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A02018 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02018-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2018

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES, DE LA ROSA, DICKENS, BARRON, SIMON, REIL-
          LY, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  ABBATE,  HEVESI
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation accom-
          modations for siblings

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  3635 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. Notwithstanding any provision of law to  the  contrary,  no  school
     4  district  in  a city having a population of one million or more inhabit-
     5  ants shall change a transportation accommodation for a child who:
     6    a. attends grade kindergarten through eight;
     7    b. has a younger sibling who:
     8    (i) attends grade kindergarten through eight;
     9    (ii) has a transportation accommodation either to the same school or a
    10  school at the same physical location; and
    11    (iii) lives at the same address; and
    12    c. either currently or at any point previously had the same  transpor-
    13  tation accommodation as such younger sibling.
    14    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    15  the date on which it shall have become a law.




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