Bill Text: NY A07101 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A07101 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07101-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7101
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 8, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enabling high school
          students to use public transportation to ride to and from school at no
          charge
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  3635 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as follows:
     3    a-1. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law,  all  high  school
     4  students attending a public or nonpublic school shall be entitled to the
     5  use  of  public transportation without charge for no more than one daily
     6  round-trip ride on any school day from their residences to  the  schools
     7  which they attend and from such schools to their residences. Each school
     8  district  shall  provide  a  suitable identification card to each of its
     9  students in order for the public transportation system  utilized  to  be
    10  able to determine each student's entitlement to this benefit.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09421-01-9
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