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History
- Referred to education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1176
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to education
- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.33
- Referred to education
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Allows boards of education to provide certain children transportation to school for a lesser distance than two miles
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Harvey Weisenberg
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Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to permitting boards of education to grant parents or guardians, physically limited by a disability, the ability to obtain bus services for their children
Purpose
To allow parents or guardians, who are physically limited by a disability, the ability to obtain bus services for their children under the currently prescribed minimum limits applicable to school districts in New York State.
Summary of provisions
Section one of this legislation would amend section 3635 of the education law to permit the transportation of children by a school district, when the child lives at a distance which is less than the distance at which transportation must be provided. Upon the adoption of a resolution by the board of education determining that the parent or guardian of a child has a physically limiting disability and that transportation would be in the best interest of the child, transportation by a school district would be permitted for that child.
Existing law
Current law requires a school district to provide transportation for all children attending grades kindergarten through eight who live more than two miles from the school which they legally attend and for children attending grades nine through twelve who live more than three miles from the school which they legally attend. Transportation shall be provided for such children up to a distance of fifteen miles, the distances in each case being measure by the nearest available route from home to school.
Justification
Several school children live in close proximity to the school they legally attend, and are therefore not qualified to receive school district transportation, leaving the child and/or their parents and guardians to provide some other method of transportation for that child to school. In some cases, the parent of such child has a physically limiting disability and is therefore unable to assist the child, by driving them, or to supervise the child, by walking with them, to ensure the child's safety to and from school. This legislation would permit a school board of education to adopt a resolution and provide transportation for children when their parent or guardian has a physically limiting disability.
Legislative history
2008: Similar bill (S.1543) Veto 106
Fiscal implications
None to state.
Effective date
The 1st of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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