Bill Text: NY S03916 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a school bus attendant or school bus monitor on all school buses transporting students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to or from any school related activity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - PRINT NUMBER 3916A [S03916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03916-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3916--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. KENNEDY, MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
          recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in  accordance  with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring  a
          school bus attendant or school bus monitor 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 either a school bus
     7  attendant or school bus monitor 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    (d)  "School bus monitor" shall mean any person employed or authorized
    19  by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
    20  of subdivision one of section five hundred nine-a of  this  chapter  for
    21  the  purpose of assisting children to safely embark and disembark from a
    22  school bus which is owned, leased or contracted for by a  public  school

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07441-04-2
        S. 3916--A                          2

     1  district  or  board  of  cooperative  educational  services, and for the
     2  purpose of assisting the  school  bus  driver  with  maintaining  proper
     3  student behavior on such school bus.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.