Bill Text: NY A08245 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a school bus attendant on all school buses transporting students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or from any school related activity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A08245 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08245-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8245 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BURKE -- 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 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 a school bus attendant 7 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 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11192-01-9