Bill Text: NY A10757 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes school districts to use school transportation aid to pay for the cost and expenses of transporting and delivering meals, homework materials and any other school materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-09 - referred to education [A10757 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10757-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10757

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Stirpe) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  authorizing  school
          districts  to  use  school  transportation aid to pay for the cost and
          expenses of transporting and delivering meals, homework materials  and
          any other school materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 3622-a of the education law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law to the contrary, the
     4  transportation  of meals,  educational materials, and any other  school-
     5  related materials for the period that began with the declaration of  the
     6  state  of  emergency  declared as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that
     7  was executed in executive order two hundred  two  that  began  on  March
     8  seventh, two thousand twenty.
     9    §  2.  Paragraph e of subdivision 1 of section 3623-a of the education
    10  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 12 to read as follows:
    11    (12) notwithstanding any other provision of law to the  contrary,  the
    12  transportation  of meals,  educational materials, and any other  school-
    13  related  materials for the period that began with the declaration of the
    14  state of emergency declared as a result of the  COVID-19  pandemic  that
    15  was  executed  in  executive  order  two hundred two that began on March
    16  seventh, two thousand twenty.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16721-03-0