New York A 9308: Relates to the electric school bus mandate; prohibits a mandate requiring school districts to purchase, operate or maintain any certain type of school buses; repeals certain provisions relating to electric buses

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A09308 Summary:

BILL NOA09308 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08547

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SPONSORBologna

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COSPNSRAngelino

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MLTSPNSR

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Rpld §3638, §3623-a sub 2 ¶f, add §3638, amd §§3602, 3623-a, 1604 & 1709, Ed L; amd §11.00, Loc Fin L; rpld
§1854 subs 22 & 23, §1884, Pub Auth L; amd §58-0701, rpld §58-0703 sub 1 ¶h, En Con L

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Removes references to the electric school bus mandate; provides that there shall be no mandate requiring school districts to purchase, operate or maintain any certain type of school buses and that the superintendent of each school district shall have the sole authority to determine the types of school buses such school district will purchase, operate and maintain; repeals certain provisions of law relating to electric school buses.

Go to top A09308 Actions:

BILL NOA09308 

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12/10/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

05/18/2026held for consideration in education

Go to topA09308 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:EDUCATION Chair:Benedetto 
DATE:05/18/2026AYE/NAY:17/7 Action: Held for Consideration Correction Date:05/22/2026BenedettoAyeSmithNay

MagnarelliAyeMcDonoughExcused

PaulinAyeMikulinExcused

RamosAyeReillyNay

KimExcusedBrownNay

OtisAyeChangNay

HyndmanAyePirozzoloNay

BronsonAyeSempolinskiNay

RomeroAyeMillerNay

Bichotte HermelAbsent

JacobsonAye

ButtenschonAbsent

ConradAbsent

JacksonAye

MitaynesAye

SeptimoAbsent

De Los SantosAye

Pheffer AmatoAye

GibbsAye

ClarkAye

ZaccaroAye

TorresAye

Go to topA09308 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA09308 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9308

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 December 10, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BOLOGNA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, the local finance law and the envi-
 ronmental conservation law, in relation to removing references related
 to the electric school bus mandate; to amend the education law in
 relation to prohibiting mandates requiring school districts to use
 certain types of school buses; and to repeal certain provisions of the
 education law, the public authorities law and the environmental
 conservation law relating to electric school buses

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 3638 of the education law is REPEALED and a new
 2 section 3638 is added to read as follows:
 3 § 3638. School buses. 1. There shall be no mandate requiring school
 4 districts to purchase, operate or maintain any certain type of school
 5 buses.
 6 2. The superintendent of each school district shall have the sole
 7 authority to determine the types of school buses to be purchased, oper-
 8 ated and maintained by such school district. A superintendent may make
 9 or change such decision at any time.
 10 3. The department shall not have the power to overrule a superinten-
 11 dent's decision about the types of school buses that will be purchased,
 12 operated and maintained by such superintendent's school district.
 13 § 2. Paragraph f of subdivision 2 of section 3623-a of the education
 14 law is REPEALED.
 15 § 3. Paragraph e of subdivision 7 of section 3602 of the education
 16 law, as amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read
 17 as follows:
 18 e. In determining approved transportation capital, debt service and
 19 lease expense for aid payable in the two thousand five--two thousand six
 20 school year and thereafter, the commissioner, after applying the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13639-01-5

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 1 provisions of paragraph c of this subdivision to such expense, shall
 2 establish an assumed amortization pursuant to this paragraph to deter-
 3 mine the approved capital, debt service and lease expense of the school
 4 district that is aidable in the current year, whether or not the school
 5 district issues debt for such expenditures, subject to any deduction
 6 pursuant to paragraph d of this subdivision. Such assumed amortization
 7 shall be for a period of five years, [