Bill Text: NY S02478 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires community district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review committees to review conditions along routes in its district by which students travel or walk to and from school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION [S02478 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02478-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2478 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring community district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review committees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2590-e of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 8-a to read as follows: 3 8-a. (a) A community council shall establish from among its members a 4 safety hazard advisory review committee to review conditions along 5 routes in its district by which students travel or walk to and from 6 school. The safety hazard advisory review committee shall review condi- 7 tions along stop to school routes in its community council district upon 8 the request of a parent who has submitted to the office of pupil trans- 9 portation a request for a variance from stop to school routes based on 10 hazardous or unsafe conditions along the student's route to or from 11 school. Such request shall be submitted in writing to the chair of the 12 community council and include a copy of the parent's request to the 13 office of pupil transportation for a variance. The community council 14 chair shall convene a meeting of the safety hazard advisory review 15 committee as necessary. The committee shall make findings of fact and 16 recommendations about conditions along the stop to school route. Such 17 findings and recommendations shall be submitted in writing to the commu- 18 nity council which may adopt the committee's recommendations or send 19 them back to the committee for additional information. Upon adoption of 20 the committee's findings and recommendations, the community council 21 shall send the written findings and recommendations to the parent and 22 the office of pupil transportation which shall consider the findings and 23 recommendations from the community council in its decision about a vari- 24 ance or designation of stop to school routes. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08747-01-9S. 2478 2 1 (b) Upon the request of a member of the community council or an admin- 2 istrator in a school in the community council district, the safety 3 hazard advisory review committed may review unsafe and hazardous condi- 4 tions along routes by which students in their district travel to and 5 from their school. Such request shall be submitted in writing to the 6 chair of the community council and shall include the location and a 7 description of the conditions to be reviewed by the safety hazard advi- 8 sory review committee. The safety hazard advisory review committee shall 9 make findings of fact and, if necessary, recommendations about condi- 10 tions along the stop to school route. Such findings and recommendations 11 shall be submitted in writing to the community council which may adopt 12 the committee's recommendations or send them back to the committee for 13 additional information. Upon adoption of the committee's findings and 14 recommendations, the community council shall send the written findings 15 and recommendations to a member of the community council or school 16 administrator who requested the review and the office of pupil transpor- 17 tation. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 19 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however that the 20 amendments made to section 2590-e of the education law, by section one 21 of this act shall survive the expiration and reversion of such section 22 as provided in section 34 of chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended.