Assembly Bill A8151A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to transportation accommodations for siblings

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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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2019-A8151 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A2018

2019-A8151 - Summary

Prohibits a school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants from changing the transportation accommodation of an older sibling who lives with and goes to either the same school as or a school located at the same place as a younger sibling who shares the same transportation accommodation.

2019-A8151 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8151
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation  accom-
   modations for siblings
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 3635 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, NO SCHOOL
 DISTRICT SHALL CHANGE A TRANSPORTATION ACCOMMODATION FOR A CHILD WHO:
   A. ATTENDS GRADE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHT;
   B. HAS A YOUNGER SIBLING WHO:
   (I) ATTENDS GRADE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHT;
   (II) HAS A TRANSPORTATION ACCOMMODATION EITHER TO THE SAME SCHOOL OR A
 SCHOOL AT THE SAME PHYSICAL LOCATION; AND
   (III) LIVES AT THE SAME ADDRESS; AND
   C. EITHER CURRENTLY OR AT ANY POINT PREVIOUSLY HAD THE SAME  TRANSPOR-
 TATION ACCOMMODATION AS SUCH YOUNGER SIBLING.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13077-01-9

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2019-A8151A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A2018

2019-A8151A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits a school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants from changing the transportation accommodation of an older sibling who lives with and goes to either the same school as or a school located at the same place as a younger sibling who shares the same transportation accommodation.

2019-A8151A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8151--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. REYES, ARROYO, DeSTEFANO, D'URSO, CRUZ, BLAKE,
   MOSLEY,  REILLY,  LAWRENCE,  SIMON,  DE LA ROSA,  BARRON,  DICKENS  --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. ABBATE, DenDEKKER, HEVESI -- read once
   and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Education -- recommitted to the
   Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation  accom-
   modations for siblings
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3635 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, NO SCHOOL
 DISTRICT IN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR  MORE  INHABIT-
 ANTS SHALL CHANGE A TRANSPORTATION ACCOMMODATION FOR A CHILD WHO:
   A. ATTENDS GRADE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHT;
   B. HAS A YOUNGER SIBLING WHO:
   (I) ATTENDS GRADE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHT;
   (II) HAS A TRANSPORTATION ACCOMMODATION EITHER TO THE SAME SCHOOL OR A
 SCHOOL AT THE SAME PHYSICAL LOCATION; AND
   (III) LIVES AT THE SAME ADDRESS; AND
   C.  EITHER CURRENTLY OR AT ANY POINT PREVIOUSLY HAD THE SAME TRANSPOR-
 TATION ACCOMMODATION AS SUCH YOUNGER SIBLING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13077-02-9

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