S 8266 NY
Relates to providing transportation after four o'clock
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Summary
This bill amends New York's education law to establish state aid for school district transportation expenses incurred after 4 p.m., which typically includes after-school program transportation. The bill sets specific annual caps on the amount of state aid available for these transportation expenses, ranging from $8.1 million in 2013-2014 to an inflation-adjusted amount beginning in 2025-2026. The bill requires that school districts maintain at least the baseline level of transportation spending from the 2012-2013 school year. Transportation expenses must otherwise be eligible for state transportation aid under existing law to qualify. The bill takes effect July 1, 2026.
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Relates to providing transportation after four o'clock.
Sponsor (1)
- Sam Sutton Democratic · primary
Action history (5)
- May 28, 2025 REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION · upper
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION · upper
- May 14, 2026 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION · upper
- May 14, 2026 PRINT NUMBER 8266A · upper
- May 19, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO EDUCATION · upper
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S08266 Summary: BILL NO S08266A   SAME AS No Same As   SPONSOR SUTTON   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §3627, Ed L   Relates to providing transportation after four o'clock.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
8266--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 28, 2025 ___________
Introduced by Sen. SUTTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education -- recommitted to the Committee on New York City Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing transporta- tion after four o'clock
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3627 of the education law, as 2 amended by section 12 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2025, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any 5 expenditures for transportation provided pursuant to this section in the 6 two thousand thirteen--two thousand fourteen school year and thereafter 7 and otherwise eligible for transportation aid pursuant to subdivision 8 seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this article shall be consid- 9 ered approved transportation expenses eligible for transportation aid, 10 provided further that for the two thousand thirteen--two thousand four- 11 teen school year such aid shall be limited to eight million one hundred 12 thousand dollars and for the two thousand fourteen--two thousand fifteen 13 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twelve million six 14 hundred thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand 15 fifteen--two thousand sixteen school year through two thousand eigh- 16 teen--two thousand nineteen school year such aid shall be limited to the 17 sum of eighteen million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the 18 base amount and for the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty 19 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of nineteen million 20 three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the 21 two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school year such aid shall 22 be limited to the sum of nineteen million eight hundred fifty thousand
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10199-03-6
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1 dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand twenty-two--two 2 thousand twenty-three school year such aid shall be limited to the sum 3 of twenty-two million three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base 4 amount and for the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand twenty-four 5 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twenty-four million 6 eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the 7 two thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five school year such aid 8 shall be limited to the sum of twenty-nine million eight hundred fifty 9 thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand twenty- 10 five--two thousand twenty-six school year and thereafter such aid shall 11 be limited to the product of (i) the maximum amount of aid authorized by 12 this subdivision for the base year, and (ii) the sum of one plus the 13 product of (a) two and one-half multiplied by (b) the percentage 14 increase in the consumer price index as defined in paragraph hh of 15 subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this article. For 16 purposes of this subdivision, "base amount" means the amount of trans- 17 portation aid paid to the school district for expenditures incurred in 18 the two thousand twelve--two thousand thirteen school year for transpor- 19 tation that would have been eligible for aid pursuant to this section 20 had this section been in effect in such school year, except that subdi- 21 vision six of this section shall be deemed not to have been in effect. 22 And provided further that the school district shall continue to annually 23 expend for the transportation described in subdivision one of this 24 section at least the expenditures used for the base [ amount ] year, 25 including, but not limited to increases in the reimbursable transporta- 26 tion cost per student . 27 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
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