Assembly Bill A1832

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Alters requirements with respect to transportation of children to nonpublic schools in school districts, applying to all school districts

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A1832 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2893

2009-A1832 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the superintendent of each school district to prepare a public school calendar and notify the officials of nonpublic schools of such calendar for the purpose of determining the days when the school district is closed, but the nonpublic are open and require the transportation of students.

2009-A1832 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1832

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CALHOUN  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A.
  BACALLES, CONTE, MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
  Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation to transportation
  services

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 424 of the laws  of  2005,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2-a.  The  superintendent  of  each [city] school district[, in a city
having a population in excess of one million,] shall  prepare  a  public
school calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which
transportation  has  been requested not later than the first day of June
in each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session
in the following school year. Such school district which provides trans-
portation to nonpublic schools shall provide such transportation for the
same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide
transportation services for more than one hundred eighty  days.    Offi-
cials  of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by a
[city] school district [of a city having a population in excess  of  one
million]  may notify such district, not later than the first day of July
of each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of  Saturdays,
Sundays  or  legal holidays upon which public schools are required to be
closed, on which the public schools are scheduled to be  closed,  except
that  in  any year in which the first or last day of Passover and Easter
Sunday are separated by more than seven days, such officials may  notify
the  district of a maximum of ten days, but such school district will be
required to provide for transportation to such nonpublic school provided
that such five or ten additional  days,  whichever  is  applicable,  are
limited  to  the  following: the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02262-01-9

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