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Assembly Bill A6578

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires school bus attendants on buses transporting certain students in the city school district of the city of New York and expands the duties of an attendant

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2011-A6578 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2590-g, Ed L; amd §1229-d, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A4442

2011-A6578 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school bus attendants on buses transporting students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade in the city school district of the city of New York; further expands the duties of a school bus attendant to assist any child under the age of thirteen or any handicapped student with boarding and leaving the bus and to assist such children and students with crossing the street.

2011-A6578 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6578

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 22, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. MARKEY, MILLMAN, TITUS, WEISENBERG, BENEDETTO --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, V. LOPEZ, MAYERSOHN, PHEFFER --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing  school  bus
  attendants  on  all  buses  transporting  certain students in the city
  school district of the city of New York; and to amend the vehicle  and
  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  expanding  the duties of a school bus
  attendant

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

  Section  1. Section 2590-g of the education law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
  7-A. PROVIDE SCHOOL BUS ATTENDANTS, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE THOUSAND
TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE-D OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, FOR ALL SCHOOL
BUSES OR VANS  TRANSPORTING  STUDENTS  IN  GRADES  KINDERGARTEN  THROUGH
EIGHTH  GRADE IN THE CITY DISTRICT TO AND FROM SCHOOL OR TO AND FROM ANY
SCHOOL RELATED ACTIVITY.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1229-d of the vehicle and  traffic  law,
as  added  by  chapter  675  of  the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
follows:
  (1) "School bus attendant" shall mean a person employed or  authorized
by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
of  subdivision  one  of section five hundred nine-a of this chapter for
the purpose of maintaining order [or] ON THE BUS,  ASSISTING  ANY  CHILD
UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN OR ANY STUDENT WITH A DISABILITY WITH BOARDING
AND  LEAVING  THE  BUS, ASSISTING ANY CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN OR
ANY STUDENT WITH A DISABILITY BY CROSSING THE STREET WITH SUCH CHILD  OR
STUDENT, AND rendering assistance to pupils with special needs.
  S  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided howev-
er that the amendments to section 2590-g of the education  law  made  by
section  one  of  this act shall survive the expiration and reversion of
such section as provided in section 34 of chapter  91  of  the  laws  of
2002, as amended.

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