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Senate Bill S9609

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts school districts located within a nuclear emergency planning zone from zero-emission school bus requirements

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2025-S9609 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3638, Ed L

2025-S9609 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts any school district located wholly or partially within a ten-mile plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone surrounding a nuclear power facility from the requirements of only purchasing or leasing zero-emission school buses and only operating and maintaining zero-emission school buses.

2025-S9609 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9609
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- 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  exempting  school
   districts  located within a nuclear emergency planning zone from zero-
   emission school bus requirements
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  3638 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  THE
 REQUIREMENTS  OF  SUBDIVISIONS  TWO  AND THREE OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT
 APPLY TO ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT LOCATED WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY WITHIN  A  TEN-
 MILE PLUME EXPOSURE PATHWAY EMERGENCY PLANNING ZONE SURROUNDING A NUCLE-
 AR POWER FACILITY.
   (B)  NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL PROHIBIT A SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM
 VOLUNTARILY  PURCHASING,  LEASING,  OR  OPERATING  ZERO-EMISSION  SCHOOL
 BUSES.
   (C)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  PUBLISH  AND  MAINTAIN A LIST OF SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS THAT QUALIFY FOR EXEMPTION UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15361-01-6

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