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A2447Assembly2017-2018 Session

Free Public Transit for Students

Official title

“Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school”

Sponsor Frank SkartadosAD-104+1 co-sponsorAffects Education
Status
Stricken
Impact
8/10
Significant
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Education

What's happening

This bill allows all high school students in New York to use public transportation to and from school for free.

Why it matters

  1. Reduces financial burden. for families by eliminating the daily transportation cost for high school students, potentially making school attendance more affordable, especially for low-income households.

  2. Expands access to education. by ensuring that all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family’s resources, can reliably get to and from school—helping reduce absenteeism due to transportation barriers.

  3. Encourages use of public transit. , which could decrease traffic congestion and reduce environmental impact from school-related car trips, while also familiarizing students with public transportation systems for future independence.

  4. Requires coordination. between school districts and transportation authorities, as schools must issue identification cards to students and systems must honor these for fare-free rides, introducing new administrative processes that will need to be managed and funded.

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Free Public Transit for Students

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Frank Skartados

Assembly Member · Assembly District 104

1 Co-sponsor

History

  1. Enacting clause stricken
  2. Referred to education
  3. Referred to education

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2447

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 20, 2017

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

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enabling high school students to use public transportation to ride to and from school at no charge

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as follows:

a-1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all high school students attending a public or nonpublic school shall be entitled to the use of public transportation without charge for no more than one daily round-trip ride on any school day from their residences to the schools which they attend and from such schools to their residences. Each school district shall provide a suitable identification card to each of its students in order for the public transportation system utilized to be able to determine each student's entitlement to this benefit.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD01532-01-7

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