New York A 10401: Includes exposure to novel coronavirus, COVID-19, as an occupational disease

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A10401 Summary:

BILL NOA10401 

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS S09289

&nbsp

SPONSORHunter

&nbsp

COSPNSRBronson, De Los Santos, Taylor

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §305, Ed L; amd §§509-a, 509-e & 509-j, add §509-bbb, V & T L

&nbsp

Provides for piggyback contracts for school transportation logistics vehicle drivers to provide pupil transportation.

Go to top A10401 Actions:

BILL NOA10401 

&nbsp

03/03/2026referred to education

Go to topA10401 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topA10401 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA10401 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10401

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 3, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the vehicle and traffic law, in
 relation to pupil transportation

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 305 of the education law is
 2 amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
 3 h. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, section one
 4 hundred three of the general municipal law, or any other provision of
 5 law to the contrary, the board of education shall be authorized to enter
 6 into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports
 7 students pursuant to a contract with a private single pupil transporta-
 8 tion contractor, provided that the board finds that the contract cost is
 9 appropriate and entry into a piggyback contract will result in a cost
 10 savings to the school district, and provided further, the commissioner
 11 approves such private transportation contractor as meeting the require-
 12 ments of the education law. For purposes of this paragraph, a "piggyback
 13 contract" means a contract for the transportation of students that: (1)
 14 provides transportation for students to or from school or school-related
 15 activities whether in New York state or otherwise, where another school
 16 district is already being provided transportation through an existing
 17 contract with a private transportation contractor, including a coopera-
 18 tively bid contract; (2) is either at the commencement of the contract,
 19 or at any point during the contract term, entered into by the private
 20 transportation contractor and each school district involved; and (3)
 21 provides for transportation in accordance with the terms and conditions
 22 of such existing transportation contract.
 23 § 2. Section 509-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap-
 24 ter 675 of the laws of 1985, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 853 of
 25 the laws of 1992, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 360 of the laws of
 26 1986 and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 599 of the laws of 1993, is
 27 amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14876-01-6

 A. 10401 2

 1 § 509-a. Definitions. As used in this article, the [term] following
 2 terms shall have the following meanings:
 3 (1) [bus] "Bus" shall mean every motor vehicle, owned, leased, rented
 4 or otherwise controlled by a motor carrier, which (a) is a school bus as
 5 defined in section one hundred forty-two of this chapter or has a seat-
 6 ing capacity of more than ten adult passengers in addition to the driver
 7 and which is used for the transportation of persons under the age of
 8 twenty-one or persons of any age who are mentally or physically disabled
 9 to a place of vocational, academic or religious instruction or religious
 10 service including nursery schools, day care centers and camps, (b) is
 11 required to obtain approval to operate in the state as a common or
 12 contract carrier of passengers by motor vehicle from the commissioner of
 13 transportation, or the interstate commerce commission, (c) is regulated
 14 as a bus line by a city that has adopted an ordinance, local law or
 15 charter to regulate or franchise bus line operations pursuant to subdi-
 16 vision four of section eighty of the transportation law, (d) is regu-
 17 lated as a van service or other common carrier of passengers by m