S 5886: Requires certain public and nonpublic schools to provide transportation or reimburse costs incurred for such transportation for certain students residing in an area containing at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5886 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 3, 2025 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3627 of the 2 education law, as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 56 of the 3 laws of 2014, is amended and a new paragraph (c) is added to read as 4 follows: 5 (b) reimbursing the cost incurred by licensed transportation carriers 6 pursuant to contracts with such school district for providing transpor- 7 tation for those children attending public and nonpublic schools in 8 grades kindergarten through six who remain at the same school for which 9 they are enrolled for regularly scheduled academic classes from half- 10 past nine o'clock in the morning or earlier until four o'clock in the 11 afternoon or later, on weekdays, and reside at least one mile from their 12 school of attendance for grades three through six, and at least one-half 13 mile from their school of attendance for grades kindergarten through 14 two[.] and 15 (c) notwithstanding section thirty-six hundred thirty-five of this 16 article or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, providing 17 transportation of up to fifteen miles or reimbursing the costs incurred 18 by licensed transportation carriers pursuant to contracts with the 19 school district for providing such transportation, regardless of borough 20 or county lines, for those children attending public and nonpublic 21 schools in grades kindergarten through six who remain at the same school 22 for which they are enrolled for regularly scheduled academic classes 23 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 1 in the afternoon or later, on weekdays, and reside in an area containing 2 at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius; provided, 3 however, that this paragraph shall only apply to students who, during 4 the two thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five school year, 5 resided in the borough of the school they are currently attending and 6 who no longer reside in such borough and to the siblings of such 7 students; and provided further, however, that any reimbursement costs 8 incurred by a city having a population of one million or more pursuant 9 to this paragraph shall not exceed the maximum amount allowed pursuant 10 to this section. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.