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A332Assembly2019-2020 Session

Boost School Bus Funding

Official title

“Relates to transportation of children by school districts”

Sponsor Amy PaulinAD-88+2 co-sponsorsAffects Education
Status
In Assembly Committee
Education
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Education

What's happening

This bill requires state funding to cover 90% of school districts' transportation costs for pupils attending nonpublic schools.

Why it matters

  1. Significantly increases state support for nonpublic school transportation. , which could reduce financial strain on local school districts and potentially shift more state education funding away from other priorities.

  2. May encourage more families to consider nonpublic (private or religious) schools. by making transportation more affordable and accessible, potentially impacting enrollment patterns in both public and nonpublic schools.

  3. Could raise equity and fairness debates. about the use of public funds for nonpublic education-related expenses, especially in communities where public school resources are already stretched thin.

  4. Impacts state and local budgets. by mandating a higher state contribution (90%) for this specific service, possibly leading to increased state education spending or changes in how education funds are allocated.

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Who cares

  • School districts

    The bill would require state aid to cover 90% of each district’s cost of transporting pupils to nonpublic schools.

  • Nonpublic schools and their students’ families

    The bill would set a 90% state reimbursement level for districts’ transportation costs for nonpublic school pupils.

  • State education budget officials

    The bill would require school aid apportionments to cover the specified share of districts’ nonpublic school transportation costs, notwithstanding inconsistent provisions of the education aid article.

Headline styles

Boost School Bus Funding

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Amy Paulin

Assembly Member · Assembly District 88

Chair, Health

History

  1. Referred to education
  2. Referred to education

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

332

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)

January 9, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, JAFFEE, BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation of children by school districts

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

Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:

f. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this article, school district apportionment shall cover ninety per centum of the individual school district's cost of transportation of pupils to nonpublic schools.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD03691-01-9

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