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Assembly Bill A7101

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school

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2019-A7101 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3160
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A8652
2017-2018: A2447
2021-2022: A389, S1842
2023-2024: A1054, S446
2025-2026: S1696

2019-A7101 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school.

2019-A7101 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7101
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enabling high school
   students to use public transportation to ride to and from school at no
   charge
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  3635 of the education law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as follows:
   A-1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW,  ALL  HIGH  SCHOOL
 STUDENTS ATTENDING A PUBLIC OR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE
 USE  OF  PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT CHARGE FOR NO MORE THAN ONE DAILY
 ROUND-TRIP RIDE ON ANY SCHOOL DAY FROM THEIR RESIDENCES TO  THE  SCHOOLS
 WHICH THEY ATTEND AND FROM SUCH SCHOOLS TO THEIR RESIDENCES. EACH SCHOOL
 DISTRICT  SHALL  PROVIDE  A  SUITABLE IDENTIFICATION CARD TO EACH OF ITS
 STUDENTS IN ORDER FOR THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM  UTILIZED  TO  BE
 ABLE TO DETERMINE EACH STUDENT'S ENTITLEMENT TO THIS BENEFIT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09421-01-9

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