Senate Bill S5886

                             
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                                   5886
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  requiring  certain
   public  and  nonpublic schools to provide transportation or reimburse-
   ment for transportation for  certain  students  residing  in  an  area
   containing at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  3627  of  the
 education  law,  as  amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2014, is amended and a new paragraph (c) is  added  to  read  as
 follows:
   (b)  reimbursing the cost incurred by licensed transportation carriers
 pursuant to contracts with such school district for providing  transpor-
 tation  for  those  children  attending  public and nonpublic schools in
 grades kindergarten through six who remain at the same school for  which
 they  are  enrolled  for regularly scheduled academic classes from half-
 past nine o'clock in the morning or earlier until four  o'clock  in  the
 afternoon or later, on weekdays, and reside at least one mile from their
 school of attendance for grades three through six, and at least one-half
 mile  from  their  school  of attendance for grades kindergarten through
 two[.] AND
   (C) NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE OR ANY OTHER LAW, RULE, OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, PROVIDING
 TRANSPORTATION  OF UP TO FIFTEEN MILES OR REIMBURSING THE COSTS INCURRED
 BY LICENSED TRANSPORTATION  CARRIERS  PURSUANT  TO  CONTRACTS  WITH  THE
 SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR PROVIDING SUCH TRANSPORTATION, REGARDLESS OF BOROUGH
 OR  COUNTY  LINES,  FOR  THOSE  CHILDREN  ATTENDING PUBLIC AND NONPUBLIC
 SCHOOLS IN GRADES KINDERGARTEN THROUGH SIX WHO REMAIN AT THE SAME SCHOOL
 FOR WHICH THEY ARE ENROLLED FOR  REGULARLY  SCHEDULED  ACADEMIC  CLASSES
 FROM HALF-PAST NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING OR EARLIER UNTIL FOUR O'CLOCK
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10342-01-5
              

 S. 5886                             2
 
 IN THE AFTERNOON OR LATER, ON WEEKDAYS, AND RESIDE IN AN AREA CONTAINING
 AT  LEAST  THREE  HUNDRED  STUDENTS  WITHIN A ONE-MILE RADIUS; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL ONLY APPLY TO  STUDENTS  WHO,  DURING
 THE  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-FOUR--TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-FIVE SCHOOL YEAR,
 RESIDED IN THE BOROUGH OF THE SCHOOL THEY ARE  CURRENTLY  ATTENDING  AND
 WHO  NO  LONGER  RESIDE  IN  SUCH  BOROUGH  AND  TO THE SIBLINGS OF SUCH
 STUDENTS; AND PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT  ANY  REIMBURSEMENT  COSTS
 INCURRED  BY  A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE PURSUANT
 TO THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT EXCEED THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT  ALLOWED  PURSUANT
 TO THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.