Assembly Bill A6429

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Allows boards of education to provide certain children transportation to school for a lesser distance than two miles

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A6429 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S44
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A4760, S595
2013-2014: S738, S6257

2009-A6429 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows boards of education to provide transportation to and from school for a child for a lesser distance than two miles if the parent or guardian of the child has a physically limiting disability which renders him or her unable to accompany the child to and from school.

2009-A6429 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6429

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 3, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting  boards  of
  education to grant parents or guardians, physically limited by a disa-
  bility, the ability to obtain bus services for their children

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the  educa-
tion  law,  as  amended by chapter 69 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
read as follows:
  a. (I) Sufficient transportation facilities (including  the  operation
and  maintenance  of  motor  vehicles)  shall  be provided by the school
district for all the children residing within the school district to and
from the school they legally attend, who are in need of such transporta-
tion because of the remoteness of the school to the  child  or  for  the
promotion  of  the  best interest of such children.  Such transportation
shall be provided for all children attending grades kindergarten through
eight who live more than two miles from the school  which  they  legally
attend  and  for  all  children attending grades nine through twelve who
live more than three miles from the school which they legally attend and
shall be provided for each such child up to a distance of fifteen miles,
the distances in each case being measured by the nearest available route
from home to school. The cost of providing such  transportation  between
two  or  three  miles,  as  the  case may be, and fifteen miles shall be
considered for the purposes of this chapter to  be  a  charge  upon  the
district and an ordinary contingent expense of the district. Transporta-
tion  for  a  lesser  distance  than  two  miles in the case of children
attending grades kindergarten through eight or three miles in  the  case
of  children  attending  grades  nine  through  twelve and for a greater
distance than fifteen miles may be provided by  the  district,  and,  if
provided, shall be offered equally to all children in like circumstances

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00951-01-9
              

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