NY State Senate Bill 2021-S2235

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 05, 2022	referred to education
Jan 20, 2021	referred to education

2021-S2235 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S7376
2017-2018: S2404
2019-2020: S6211

2021-S2235 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to school district shared transportation services.

2021-S2235 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2235

SPONSOR: BROOKS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

To provide an incentive for school districts to share pupil transporta-
tion and reduce costs.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. amends subdivision 7 of Section 3602 of the education law by
adding a new paragraph f to provide for a financial incentive to share
pupil transportation.

Section 2. is the enacting clause.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, school districts receive state transportation aid for
students they transport to educational programs based on their approved
eligible expenses. There is little incentive for school districts to
reduce costs through sharing transportation among school districts
because the more they spend the more aid they get. This is especially
true for low wealth districts that are granted aid up to 90 percent of
aidable costs.

This bill would provide, an incentive for all school districts to share
pupil transportation with other districts, calculated as 10 percent of
the revenue received from the other district for the shared transporta-
tion. It is expected that savings will accrue to the State of more than
ten times the amount of the incentive.

Consider an example in which two low-wealth school districts share pupil
transportation to a nonpublic school. Their costs are essentially cut in
half because they use one bus, one driver, etc.  instead of two.
District A provides the transportation and District B pays District A
$11,410 for its per-pupil share of the expense. Under this proposal, the
State would pay district A $1,141 for providing the shared transporta-
tion; District B would benefit from the reduced cost. Both districts
would also save from the sharing ($6,844) and the state would save the
most ($61,596$1.141 incentive or $60,455). That is, a modest investment
in a savings incentive would produce reduced expenses and large savings.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Undetermined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of July succeeding the date upon
which it shall have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed
three years thereafter.

2021-S2235 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2235
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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 TWENTY-ONE--TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-TWO  SCHOOL  YEAR  AND
 THEREAFTER,  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 TRANSPORTA-
 TION  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  PARAGRAPH,  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  APPORTIONMENT  UNDER  SUCH  CONTRACT  SHALL  DEMONSTRATE COST
 SAVINGS IN ACCORDANCE 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD03663-01-1

 S. 2235                             2
 
 SCHOOL YEAR 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.

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