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A03566 Summary:

BILL NOA03566 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02112

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SPONSORBurke

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COSPNSRShrestha, McDonald

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1229-d, V & T L

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Requires a school bus attendant or school bus monitor on all school buses transporting students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to or from any school related activity.

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BILL NOA03566 

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01/28/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3566

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring a
 school bus attendant or school bus monitor on all school buses

 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 1229-d of the vehicle and traffic
 2 law, as added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 (1) (a) Every school bus operating in this state, which is transport-
 5 ing students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to
 6 or from any school related activity, shall have either a school bus
 7 attendant or school bus monitor on board.
 8 (b) The school bus attendant required by this section shall, in addi-
 9 tion to keeping order on the bus, assist any child under the age of
 10 thirteen, or any student with a disability with boarding and leaving the
 11 bus and by crossing the street with the child where necessary.
 12 (c) "School bus attendant" shall mean a person employed or authorized
 13 by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
 14 of subdivision one of section five hundred nine-a of this chapter for
 15 the purpose of maintaining order [or] and rendering assistance to
 16 [pupils with special needs] students, including any student with a disa-
 17 bility.
 18 (d) "School bus monitor" shall mean any person employed or authorized
 19 by a school district to ride on a school bus as defined in paragraph (a)
 20 of subdivision one of section five hundred nine-a of this chapter for
 21 the purpose of assisting children to safely embark and disembark from a
 22 school bus which is owned, leased or contracted for by a public school
 23 district or board of cooperative educational services, and for the
 24 purpose of assisting the school bus driver with maintaining proper
 25 student behavior on such school bus.
 26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 27 the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03542-01-5

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