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Assembly Bill A6121

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs the department of education of the city of New York to provide school bus service for students in grades K - 5, who live one-half mile or more away from school

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2015-A6121 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4271
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง19-606, NYC Ad Cd

2015-A6121 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of education of the city of New York to provide school bus service for students in grades K - 5, who live one-half mile or more away from school.

2015-A6121 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6121

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 16, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
  relation to requiring the department of education of the city  of  New
  York  to provide school bus service to students in grades kindergarten
  through five who reside one-half mile or more from school

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

  Section  1. Subdivision b of section 19-606 of the administrative code
of the city of New York, as added by local law number 48 of the city  of
New York for the year 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  b.  1. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL PROVIDE SCHOOL BUS SERVICE TO
ALL GENERAL EDUCATION STUDENTS WHO LIVE ONE-HALF MILE OR MORE  FROM  THE
SCHOOL  THEY  ATTEND  AND  WHO ARE ENROLLED IN A GRADE FROM KINDERGARTEN
THROUGH FIVE, INCLUSIVE.
  2. The [board] DEPARTMENT of education shall prepare and, when  neces-
sary,  revise  two  school bus service plans annually to ensure that all
students eligible to receive school bus service to and from the  schools
they  legally  attend shall be provided with a seat on a school bus. One
plan shall relate to school  bus  service  to  be  provided  during  the
session of the school year beginning in September and ending in June and
one  plan  shall  relate  to  school bus service to be provided during a
summer school session. Each plan shall be prepared prior  to  the  first
day  of  the  session  of  the school year to which it relates and shall
include the following information: (i) the criteria used by the  [board]
DEPARTMENT  of  education  to determine whether a student is eligible to
receive school bus service; (ii) for each school, a summary  description
of the school bus routes servicing the school; (iii) for each school bus
route, the number of students eligible to ride on the school bus operat-
ing  on  the  route and the maximum seating capacity of such school bus;
and (iv) any other information the [board] DEPARTMENT of education deems
relevant. Upon completion of the plans, they shall be submitted  to  the
mayor and the speaker of the city council.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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