New York S 1084: Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction

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S01084 Summary:

BILL NOS01084 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02623

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SPONSORRAMOS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §3641-c, Ed L

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Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction.

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BILL NOS01084 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1084

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- 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 creating a transporta-
 tion subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction

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

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3641-c
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 3641-c. After school transportation subsidy for private instruction
 4 in water safety. 1. The department shall make available, and eligible
 5 public schools in the state shall provide, an optional subsidy to fund
 6 transportation for students to attend a qualified swimming and water
 7 safety instruction course at a qualified private facility. The quali-
 8 fications of such course and facility shall be defined by the commis-
 9 sioner, in consultation with the department of health, in regulations.
 10 2. Students attending a public school within the state shall be eligi-
 11 ble to enroll into the transportation subsidy provided that:
 12 (a) within a city of one million or more, there are no more than ten
 13 qualified facilities providing a qualified course within a radius of
 14 two-and-one-half miles of such public school; or
 15 (b) outside a city of one million or more, there are no more than ten
 16 qualified facilities providing a qualified course within a radius of
 17 five miles of such public school.
 18 3. All students in grades kindergarten through twelve at an eligible
 19 public school may opt into the transportation subsidy upon displaying
 20 proof of such student's enrollment in an eligible instruction program at
 21 an eligible facility.
 22 4. The department shall promulgate regulations to determine:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03199-01-5

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 1 (a) which forms of transportation may be funded by such subsidy on a
 2 local basis, including but not limited to school buses or public trans-
 3 it;
 4 (b) on what basis separate transportation for a parent may be eligible
 5 for the subsidy; and
 6 (c) in what form subsidy allotments are to be distributed to enrolled
 7 students.
 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 9 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 10 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 11 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 12 on or before such effective date.

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