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Requires a prohibition on students leaving campus in a motor vehicle during the lunch period to be included in school codes of conduct
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Michael Gianaris
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Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to directing school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to prohibit students from leaving the school campus in a motor vehicle during the lunch period
Purpose
This legislation would prohibit New York's high school students from leaving school in a motor vehicle during their lunch period in order to ensure their safety and security throughout the school day.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Paragraph 1 and m of subdivision 2 of section 2801 of the education law, as added by chapter 181 of the laws of 2000, are amended and a new paragraph is added to include provisions prohibiting any student from leaving the school property in a motor vehicle, including a snowmobile and an all-terrain vehicle during such student's lunch period.
Such provisions shall not apply to any student who leaves school property for a school function, illness, injury, or upon the request of the person in parental relation to the student, provided that such a request shall not include a parental consent for a student to leave school property during the lunch period solely for the purpose of leaving such property during lunch period.
Justification
Three Long island teenagers were killed in a motor vehicle accident that occurred during their lunch period. In 2005, a seventeen year old Jericho student similarly lost his life in an accident that occurred during such a lunch period.
Allowing students to leave a high school campus for lunch creates an environment where they will be in a rush to return to school in the narrow window of time that exists before their next class. Indeed, a 2002 study revealed that students of an "open campus" school are three times more likely to be in an accident than those on a "closed campus" school.
Legislative history
This bill was previously introduced.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
The first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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