NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A43
SPONSOR: Paulin TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to the transportation of
children residing in a school district in the village of Tuckahoe
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to give the school district of the village
of Tuckahoe additional flexibility in shaping their own school transpor-
tation plans to transport children to public or private schools.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 Amends Education Law section 3635(1) to authorize the school
district in the village of Tuckahoe to reduce their obligation to trans-
port school children from home to school from the current state mandated
15 miles to 7 miles. Such mileage restriction in the scope of transport-
ing school district children must be adopted pursuant to a school board
resolution.
JUSTIFICATION:
Current law establishes an obligation for school districts to transport
children at least 15 miles each way from home to school and then back to
home again. While this requirement may be sound for school districts of
large geographical size, it may be a burden to smaller school districts
such the village of Tuckahoe which is only 2.25 sq/miles in size.
This bill merely authorizes the school district of the Village of Tucka-
hoe to reduce their responsibility of transporting pupils to a distance
that more accurately reflects the size of the district Such mileage
reduction may only occur after the school board adopts a resolution to
authorize this change.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
A4145, 2023 and 2024, referred to education.
A.5068, 2021 and 2022, referred to education.
A.447, 2019 and 2020, referred to education.
A.1981, 2017 and 2018, referred to education.
A.1261, 2015 and 2016, referred to education.
A.2495, 2013 and 2014, referred to education. Same as S.4194, 2013 and
2014, referred to education.
A,8258, 2011 and 2012, referred to education.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the state.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
July 1st, next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
