Bill Text: NY A10397 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes school districts to provide bussing to pre-kindergarten students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-18 - substituted by s7218a [A10397 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A10397-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10397--A
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 25, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the trans-
portation of pre-kindergarten students
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 g to read as follows:
3 G. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE
4 TRUSTEES OR BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY, IN ITS
5 DISCRETION, PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING A UNIVERSAL
6 PRE-KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM IN ADDITION TO TRANSPORTATION FUNDED BY SUCH
7 PROGRAM OR TRANSPORTATION FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING ANOTHER DISTRICT SPON-
8 SORED OR DISTRICT-RUN PRE-KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM, WITHIN MILEAGE LIMITS
9 ESTABLISHED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT; IF PROVIDED SUCH TRANSPORTATION
10 SHALL BE OFFERED EQUALLY TO ALL CHILDREN IN LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES RESIDING
11 IN THE DISTRICT. THE COST OF PROVIDING SUCH TRANSPORTATION SHALL BE A
12 CHARGE UPON THE DISTRICT AND FOR PURPOSES OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF
13 SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, SUCH PUPILS SHALL BE
14 CONSIDERED NON ALLOWABLE PUPILS AND THE COSTS OF THEIR TRANSPORTATION
15 SHALL NOT BE AIDABLE.
16 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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