Assembly Bill A10681

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10681

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 12, 2016
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Weinstein)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation  to  transportation
  reimbursement  of  certain  costs  incurred by licensed transportation
  carriers in the city of New York

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1 of section 3627 of the
education law, as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter  56  of  the
laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
  (b)  reimbursing the cost incurred by licensed transportation carriers
pursuant to contracts, WHICH MAY INCLUDE FRINGE BENEFITS INCLUDING,  BUT
NOT  LIMITED  TO,  QUALIFIED  TUITION REDUCTIONS ALLOWABLE UNDER FEDERAL
LAW, with such school district for providing  transportation  for  those
children  attending  public and nonpublic schools in grades kindergarten
through six who remain at the same school for which  they  are  enrolled
for  regularly scheduled academic classes from half-past nine o'clock in
the morning or earlier until four o'clock in the afternoon or later,  on
weekdays,  and  reside at least one mile from their school of attendance
for grades three through six, and at  least  one-half  mile  from  their
school of attendance for grades kindergarten through two.
  S  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 3623-a of the education law is amended
by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
  G.  FOR  TRANSPORTATION  CONTRACTS  PROVIDED   PURSUANT   TO   SECTION
THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED  TWENTY-SEVEN OF THIS PART, WHICH MAY INCLUDE FRINGE
BENEFITS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED  TO,  QUALIFIED  TUITION  REDUCTIONS
ALLOWABLE UNDER FEDERAL LAW.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



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