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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 12, 2009
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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.
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after Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the week in which public
schools are closed for spring recess, December twenty-fourth and the
week between Christmas day and New Year's day, the Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday after the observance of Washington's birthday, and,
in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens only, Anniversary Day as desig-
nated in section twenty-five hundred eighty-six of this chapter.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.