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Senate Bill S10354

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to school bus transportation

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2025-S10354 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3635, Ed L

2025-S10354 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that school bus transportation be provided where: a parent or guardian of a child not residing in the district on the April first date submits a written request within thirty days after establishing residence in the district; a family moves to a different dwelling within the district during the school year; a school moves locations from one location to another; or a parent or guardian chooses a nonpublic school for their child after April first.

2025-S10354 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10354 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10354
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. SUTTON, WEBER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school bus transporta-
   tion
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3635  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  719  of  the  laws  of 1978, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. (A) A parent  or  guardian  of  a  child  residing  in  any  school
 district,  or  any representative authorized by such parent or guardian,
 who desires for a child during the next school year  any  transportation
 authorized  or  directed  by this chapter shall submit a written request
 therefor to the school trustees or board of education of  such  district
 not  later  than the first day of April preceding the next school year[,
 provided, however, that].  TRANSPORTATION SHALL ALSO BE PROVIDED  WHERE:
 (I) a parent or guardian of a child not residing in the district on such
 date  [shall  submit] SUBMITS a written request within thirty days after
 establishing residence in the district; (II) A FAMILY MOVES TO A DIFFER-
 ENT DWELLING WITHIN THE DISTRICT DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR; (III) A  SCHOOL
 MOVES LOCATIONS FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER; OR (IV) A PARENT OR GUARD-
 IAN  CHOOSES  A  PUBLIC  OR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL FOR THEIR CHILD AFTER APRIL
 FIRST. No late request of a parent or guardian for transportation  shall
 be  denied  where a reasonable explanation is provided for the delay. If
 the voters, school trustees, or board of education fail to  provide  the
 transportation  authorized  or  directed by this chapter after receiving
 such a request, such parent, guardian or representative, or any taxpayer
 residing in the district, may appeal to the commissioner [of education],
 as provided in section three hundred ten  of  this  chapter.  Except  as
 hereinbefore provided, the commissioner [of education] shall not require
 that  such parent, guardian or representative present a request for such
 transportation to any meeting of the voters, school trustees or board of
 education in order to appeal. Upon such  appeal,  the  commissioner  [of

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15303-02-6

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