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Assembly Bill A2018

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to transportation accommodations for siblings

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2021-A2018 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A8151

2021-A2018 (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.

2021-A2018 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2018
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES, DE LA ROSA, DICKENS, BARRON, SIMON, REIL-
   LY, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  ABBATE,  HEVESI
   -- 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  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.
                                                            LBD00072-01-1

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