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                                   5314
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  including  remedial
   services,  homework  or childcare as the transportation responsibility
   of the city school district located in a city having a  population  of
   one million or more

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (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, are amended to read as follows:
   (a) providing transportation 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 OR FOR REMEDIAL SERVICES, HOMEWORK OR CHILDCARE  from  half-past
 nine  o'clock in the morning or earlier until four o'clock in the after-
 noon 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
 or
   (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 OR FOR REME-
 DIAL SERVICES, HOMEWORK OR CHILDCARE 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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