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                                   7079
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2017
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 Introduced by 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;  and  providing  for  the  repeal  of  such
   provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   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 SEVENTEEN--TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN SCHOOL YEAR AND THERE-
 AFTER,  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  OTHER THAN A CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN A CITY
 HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE INHABITANTS SHALL BE ELIGIBLE
 FOR AN  INCENTIVE  APPORTIONMENT  FOR  PROVIDING  SHARED  TRANSPORTATION
 SERVICES  TO  ONE  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 REVENUE RECEIVED FROM ANOTHER PUBLIC  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 FOR PROVIDING SHARED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO ONE OR MORE OTHER PUBLIC
 SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  AND  (II)  TEN PERCENT. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS PARA-
 GRAPH, THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO APPROVE  ANY
 CONTRACT  FOR  SHARED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES BETWEEN ONE OR MORE PUBLIC
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS PURSUANT TO SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE  OF
 THIS ARTICLE AND PROVIDED A SCHOOL DISTRICT CLAIMING AN INCENTIVE APPOR-
 TIONMENT  UNDER  SUCH CONTRACT SHALL DEMONSTRATE COST SAVINGS IN ACCORD-
 ANCE WITH GUIDELINES ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER.  IF  THE  TOTAL
 STATEWIDE  APPORTIONMENT  UNDER  THIS  PARAGRAPH  EXCEEDS  THREE MILLION
 DOLLARS ($3,000,000), INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT  ALLOCATIONS  SHALL  BE
 PRORATED TO ENSURE THAT THE APPORTIONMENT FOR SUCH SHARED TRANSPORTATION
 INCENTIVE  AID  DOES  NOT  EXCEED  THREE  MILLION  DOLLARS ($3,000,000),
 PROVIDED THAT SUCH PRORATED APPORTIONMENT COMPUTED  AND  PAYABLE  AS  OF
 SEPTEMBER  ONE  OF THE SCHOOL YEAR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SCHOOL YEAR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 FOR WHICH SUCH AID IS CLAIMED SHALL BE DEEMED FINAL AND NOT  SUBJECT  TO
 CHANGE.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date upon which it shall have become a law and shall expire  and  be
 deemed repealed three years after such date.