New York S 1696: Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school

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S01696 Summary:

BILL NOS01696 

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRKAVANAGH, SALAZAR

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Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school.

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BILL NOS01696 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1696

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, KAVANAGH, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa-
 tion

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enabling high school
 students to use public transportation to ride to and from school at no
 charge

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the education law is
 2 amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as follows:
 3 a-1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all high school
 4 students attending a public or nonpublic school shall be entitled to the
 5 use of public transportation without charge for no more than one daily
 6 round-trip ride on any school day from their residences to the schools
 7 which they attend and from such schools to their residences. Each school
 8 district shall provide a suitable identification card to each of its
 9 students in order for the public transportation system utilized to be
 10 able to determine each student's entitlement to this benefit.
 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 12 it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03960-01-5

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