Bill Text: NY A07262 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a school bus attendant or school bus monitor on all school buses transporting students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to or from any school related activity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A07262 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07262-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7262

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BURKE, DARLING, RIVERA, LUNSFORD, WILLIAMS, BRON-
          SON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring a
          school bus attendant or school bus monitor on all school buses

          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 1229-d of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (1)  (a) Every school bus operating in this state, which is transport-
     5  ing students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to
     6  or from any school related activity, shall  have  either  a  school  bus
     7  attendant or school bus monitor on board.
     8    (b)  The school bus attendant required by this section shall, in addi-
     9  tion to keeping order on the bus, assist any  child  under  the  age  of
    10  thirteen, or any student with a disability with boarding and leaving the
    11  bus and by crossing the street with the child where necessary.
    12    (c)  "School bus attendant" shall mean a person employed or authorized
    13  by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
    14  of subdivision one of section five hundred nine-a of  this  chapter  for
    15  the  purpose  of  maintaining  order  [or]  and  rendering assistance to
    16  [pupils with special needs] students, including any student with a disa-
    17  bility.
    18    (d) "School bus monitor" shall mean any person employed or  authorized
    19  by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
    20  of  subdivision  one  of section five hundred nine-a of this chapter for
    21  the purpose of assisting children to safely embark and disembark from  a
    22  school  bus  which is owned, leased or contracted for by a public school
    23  district or board of  cooperative  educational  services,  and  for  the
    24  purpose  of  assisting  the  school  bus  driver with maintaining proper
    25  student behavior on such school bus.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.

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