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Assembly Bill A8838

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to school district shared transportation services

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2017-A8838 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A10575

2017-A8838 (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.

2017-A8838 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8838
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 22, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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
 
   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 EIGHTEEN--TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN 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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD13820-01-7

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