New York S 8547: Relates to qualifying offenses for pre-trial detention

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S08547 Summary:

BILL NOS08547 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09308

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SPONSORWEIK

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, GALLIVAN, RHOADS, STEC

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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.

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BILL NOS08547 

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10/24/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

03/09/2026NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED

05/05/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8547

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 October 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 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 Section 3638 of the education law is REPEALED and a new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, [and for the two thousand twenty-
 8 two--two thousand twenty-three school year and thereafter such assumed
 9 amortization for zero-emission school buses as defined in section thir-
 10 ty-six hundred thirty-eight of this article and related costs pursuant
 11 to paragraph f of subdivision two of section thirty-six hundred twenty-
 12 three-a of this article shall be for a period of eight ye