New York A 11266: Provides that transportation shall be provided to all children attending grades kindergarten through twelve who live within a fifteen mile radius of the school they legally attend

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A11266 Summary:

BILL NOA11266 

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SAME ASSAME AS S10158

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SPONSORCarroll P

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COSPNSRWieder, Eachus, Davila, Berger, Weprin, Kay, Yeger, Gallagher, Colton, Brabenec

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3635, Ed L

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Provides that transportation shall be provided to all children attending grades kindergarten through twelve who live within a fifteen mile radius of the school they legally attend; provides that such transportation may also be provided for such students to before-and/or-after-school child care locations.

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BILL NOA11266 

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05/04/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11266

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 4, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. P. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the transportation of
 children attending grades kindergarten through twelve

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs a, b, and e of subdivision 1 of section 3635 of
 2 the education law, paragraph a as amended by section 11 of part A of
 3 chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, paragraph b as amended by chapter 718 of
 4 the laws of 1990, subparagraph (i) of paragraph b as amended by chapter
 5 571 of the laws of 1994, and paragraph e as amended by chapter 665 of
 6 the laws of 1990, are amended to read as follows:
 7 a. Sufficient transportation facilities (including the operation and
 8 maintenance of motor vehicles) shall be provided by the school district
 9 for all the children residing within the school district to and from the
 10 school they legally attend, who are in need of such transportation
 11 because of the remoteness of the school to the child or for the
 12 promotion of the best interest of such children. Such transportation
 13 shall be provided for all children attending grades kindergarten through
 14 eight who live more than two miles from the school which they legally
 15 attend and for all children attending grades nine through twelve who
 16 live more than three miles from the school which they legally attend,
 17 the distances in each case being measured by the nearest available route
 18 from home to school, and shall be provided for each such child [up to a
 19 distance of] within a fifteen [miles, the distances in each case being
 20 measured by the nearest available route from home to school] mile
 21 radius. The cost of providing such transportation between two or three
 22 miles, as the case may be, and within a fifteen [miles] mile radius
 23 shall be considered for the purposes of this chapter to be a charge upon
 24 the district and an ordinary contingent expense of the district. Trans-
 25 portation for a lesser distance than two miles in the case of children
 26 attending grades kindergarten through eight or three miles in the case
 27 of children attending grades nine through twelve and for a greater
 28 distance than a fifteen [miles] mile radius may be provided by the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15672-02-6

 A. 11266 2

 1 district with the approval of the qualified voters, and, if provided,
 2 shall be offered equally to all children in like circumstances residing
 3 in the district; provided, however, that this requirement shall not
 4 apply to transportation offered pursuant to section thirty-six hundred
 5 thirty-five-b of this [article] part.
 6 b. (i) School districts providing transportation to a nonpublic school
 7 for pupils living within a specified distance from such school shall
 8 designate one or more public schools as centralized pick-up points and
 9 shall provide transportation between such points and such nonpublic
 10 schools for students residing in the district who live too far from such
 11 nonpublic schools to qualify for transportation between home and school.
 12 The district shall not be responsible for the provision of transporta-
 13 tion for pupils between their home and such pick-up poin