Assembly Bill A6840

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Details the procedure that certain school districts must follow when dealing with disciplinary actions for bus drivers and bus drivers' assistants

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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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2023-A6840 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7415
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1604, 1709, 2503 & 2554, Ed L

2023-A6840 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Details the procedure that certain school districts must follow when dealing with disciplinary actions for bus drivers and bus drivers' assistants.

2023-A6840 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6840
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  contracts  regarding
   bus drivers and bus drivers' assistants
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 23 of section 1604 of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  269  of  the  laws  of 1974, is amended to read as
 follows:
   23. To contract with any person, corporation or other school  district
 for  the conveyance of pupils residing within the district, when author-
 ized to do so under subdivision nineteen of section two  thousand  twen-
 ty-one OF THIS CHAPTER, by vote of the inhabitants of the district enti-
 tled to vote, or to contract for the operation, maintenance and garaging
 of  motor  vehicles owned by the district, in accordance with such rules
 and regulations as such trustees  may  establish,  consistent  with  the
 regulations  of the commissioner [of education]. Upon authorization by a
 school district meeting, every such contract of  transportation  may  be
 made  for  a  period  not  exceeding  five  years,  notwithstanding  any
 provision of  any  other  law  inconsistent  herewith.    REGARDING  ANY
 DISTRICT  WHOLLY  WITHIN THE COUNTIES OF WESTCHESTER, PUTNAM, NASSAU AND
 SUFFOLK AND WITH RESPECT TO ANY CONTRACT ENTERED INTO UNDER THIS  SUBDI-
 VISION,  SUCH DISTRICT SHALL ABIDE BY THE TERMS CONTAINED IN ANY COLLEC-
 TIVELY BARGAINED  AGREEMENT  APPLICABLE  TO  BUS  DRIVERS  AND  DRIVER'S
 ASSISTANTS ENTERED INTO BY THE CONTRACTING ENTITY GOVERNING DISCIPLINARY
 ACTIONS  AGAINST  BUS  DRIVERS  AND DRIVERS' ASSISTANTS EMPLOYED BY SUCH
 CONTRACTING ENTITY PRIOR TO THE DISTRICT  IMPOSING  OR  IMPLEMENTING  AN
 ADVERSE  DISCIPLINARY  ACTION AGAINST SUCH DRIVER OR DRIVER'S ASSISTANT,
 UNLESS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE DISTRICT  CERTIFIES  THAT  THE  ACT  OR
 OMISSION  OF  SUCH  DRIVER  OR  DRIVER'S ASSISTANT, IF TRUE, CONSTITUTED
 EGREGIOUS MISCONDUCT THAT CREATED A CLEAR  AND  PRESENT  DANGER  TO  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10466-01-3
              

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