Bill Text: NY A08151 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 13-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-13 - print number 8151a [A08151 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08151-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8151--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. REYES, ARROYO, DeSTEFANO, D'URSO, CRUZ, BLAKE,
          MOSLEY,  REILLY,  LAWRENCE,  SIMON,  DE LA ROSA,  BARRON,  DICKENS  --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. ABBATE, DenDEKKER, HEVESI -- read once
          and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Education -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        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.
                                                                   LBD13077-02-9