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                                  1348--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education  --  recommitted
   to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
   -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
   tee   on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 57 of the laws of 2012 enacting into  law  major
   components  of legislation necessary to implement the education, labor
   and family assistance budget, in relation to  legalizing,  validating,
   ratifying  and  confirming  certain  actions  or omissions relating to
   certain transportation contracts
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 16-a of part A of chapter
 57 of the laws of 2012, enacting into law  major  components  of  legis-
 lation necessary to implement the education, labor and family assistance
 budget, are amended to read as follows:
   1.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law to the contrary, where
 the education department denies or has denied transportation aid  for  a
 school district transportation contract or has recovered overpayments of
 such  aid  relating  thereto,  the actions or omissions of all officers,
 employees or agents of an eligible school district  relating  to  or  in
 connection  with  transportation  contracts  for the 2004-05 school year
 through the [2011-12] 2017-18 school year and for contracts and contract
 extensions entered into prior to the [2004-05] 2017-18 school  year  for
 which  expenses  were incurred in the 2004-05 school year or thereafter,
 and, where a district can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the commis-
 sioner OF EDUCATION that such actions or omissions  involve  only  inad-
 vertent  and  minor  clerical  or  technical errors, all acts incidental
 thereto  are  hereby  legalized,  validated,  ratified  and   confirmed,
 notwithstanding  any failure to comply with the filing provisions of the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD06926-02-8

 S. 1348--A                          2
 
 education law, the general municipal law or any other law, rule or regu-
 lation other than those filing provisions  defined  in  paragraph  a  of
 subdivision  5  of section 3604 of the education law, in relation to any
 omission,  error,  defect, irregularity or illegality in such proceeding
 had and taken.
   2. The  education  department  is  hereby  directed  to  consider  the
 contracts  legalized,  ratified,  validated  and  confirmed  pursuant to
 subdivision 1 of this section for transportation  aid  as  a  valid  and
 proper  obligation  of  the  school district for aid payable for expense
 incurred in the 2004-05 school year and thereafter; provided  that  such
 school  district  submits  to  the  education  department the applicable
 contract number or numbers, school year and upon request, a copy of  the
 contract,  on  or  before  December  31, [2012] 2018 and the contract is
 approved by the commissioner of education, and provided further that any
 amount due and payable for school years prior to the  [2012-13]  2017-18
 school  year  as  a  result  of  this  act shall be paid pursuant to the
 provisions of paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the educa-
 tion law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.