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- Substituted by A9267A
- Amended on third reading (t) 595a
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.513
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to education
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
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- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.411
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to education
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Allows board of education to provide certain children transportation to school for a lesser distance than two miles
Vetoed · Sponsor Earlene Hooper
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BILL NUMBER:S595A
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to the transportation of children residing in a school district
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 1. of this legislation would amend section 3635 of the education law to permit the transportation of a child by a school district when the child lives at a distance which is less than the distance that transportation must be provided. Upon the adoption of a resolution by the board of education or trustees of any school district, transportation may be offered on an equitable basis to children who have a parent/legal guardian with a physically limiting impairment which prohibits the parent/legal guardian from accompanying their child to or from school as certified by their physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner.
Section 2. Effective Date
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
2011: Passed the Senate (S.595) 2010: Passed Senate (S.44/A.6429)
2009: Advanced to Third Reading (S.44/ A.6429) 2008: Similar Bill (S.1543) Veto 106
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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