Assembly Bill A10575

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to school district shared transportation services

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A10575 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A8838

2015-A10575 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a school district shall be eligible for an incentive apportionment for entering into a contract for shared transportation services between two or more other public school districts.

2015-A10575 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10575

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 7, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Thiele) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district shared
  transportation services

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  3602 of the education law is
amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
  F. IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER APPORTIONMENT UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION,  FOR
THE  TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN SCHOOL YEAR AND THERE-
AFTER, A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN  INCENTIVE  APPORTION-
MENT  FOR  ENTERING  INTO  A CONTRACT FOR SHARED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
BETWEEN TWO OR MORE OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS. THE  AMOUNT  OF  SUCH
APPORTIONMENT  UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE PRODUCT OF (I)
THE AMOUNT OF COST SAVINGS ACCRUING TO THE PUBLIC  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  FOR
ENTERING  INTO  AN  AGREEMENT  FOR  SHARED TRANSPORTATION AND (II) FIFTY
PERCENT. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  BE
AUTHORIZED  TO  APPROVE  ANY CONTRACT FOR SHARED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
BETWEEN TWO OR MORE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS PURSUANT TO SECTION  THIRTY-
SIX  HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE AND PROVIDED A SCHOOL DISTRICT
CLAIMING AN INCENTIVE APPORTIONMENT UNDER  SUCH  CONTRACT  SHALL  DEMON-
STRATE  COST  SAVINGS  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH GUIDELINES ESTABLISHED BY THE
COMMISSIONER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  A  PUBLIC  SCHOOL
DISTRICT   SHALL  MEAN  COMMON  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS,  CONSOLIDATED  SCHOOL
DISTRICTS, CENTRAL SCHOOL  DISTRICTS,  CENTRAL  HIGH  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS,
UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS OTHER THAN A CITY
SCHOOL  DISTRICT  IN  A  CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE
INHABITANTS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
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.
                                                           LBD15724-01-6

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