Assembly Bill A2893

2011-2012 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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2011-A2893 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A1832

2011-A2893 (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.

2011-A2893 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2893

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. CALHOUN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CONTE,
  J. 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
after  Labor  Day,  Rosh  Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the week in which public

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02826-01-1

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