Bill Text: NY A06934 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to school districts providing transportation services to certain pupils to nonpublic schools located within fifteen miles of such school district's boundaries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-25 - referred to education [A06934 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06934-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6934
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 25, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  school  districts
         providing  transportation  services  to  certain  pupils  to nonpublic
         schools located within fifteen miles of such school district's bounda-
         ries
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section
    2  3635  of  the  education  law,  as amended by chapter 571 of the laws of
    3  1994, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (i) School districts  [providing]  SHALL  PROVIDE  transportation  FOR
    5  PUPILS  LIVING  WITHIN  THE  SCHOOL DISTRICT'S BOUNDARIES to a nonpublic
    6  school [for pupils living within a specified distance from such] LOCATED
    7  WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT'S BOUNDARIES.  SUCH  school
    8  shall designate one or more public schools as centralized pick-up points
    9  and  shall provide transportation between such points and such nonpublic
   10  schools for students residing in the district [who  live  too  far  from
   11  such  nonpublic  schools  to qualify for transportation between home and
   12  school].  The district shall not be responsible  for  the  provision  of
   13  transportation  for  pupils  between their home and such pick-up points.
   14  The district may provide school bus transportation to  a  pupil  if  the
   15  residence of the pupil is located on an established route for the trans-
   16  portation  of  pupils  to  the  centralized  pick-up point provided such
   17  transportation does not result in additional costs to the district.  The
   18  cost  of  providing  transportation between such pick-up points and such
   19  nonpublic schools shall be an ordinary contingent expense.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10150-04-3