Eliminates the requirement that when the board of education enters into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports students pursuant to a contract with a private transportation contractor, the board finds that the entry into the piggyback contract will result in a cost savings to the school district.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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450
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, LAVINE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to piggyback bus trans-
portation contracts
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "school bus
route efficiency act".
§ 2. Paragraph g of subdivision 14 of section 305 of the education
law, as added by section 12-a of part YYY of chapter 59 of the laws of
2019, is amended to read as follows:
g. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, section one
hundred three of the general municipal law, or any other provision of
law to the contrary, the board of education shall be authorized to enter
into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports
students pursuant to a contract with a private transportation contrac-
tor, provided that the board finds that the contract cost is appropriate
[and entry into a piggyback contract will result in a cost savings to
the school district]. For purposes of this paragraph, a "piggyback
contract" means a contract for the transportation of students that: (1)
provides transportation FOR ONE SCHOOL DISTRICT to a location outside
the students' school district of residence [to which another school
district is already providing transportation to its own students through
an existing contract with a private transportation contractor, other
than a cooperatively bid contract]; (2) PROVIDES TRANSPORTATION FOR
ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR ITS OWN STUDENTS TO THE SAME OR NEARBY
LOCATIONS THROUGH A CONTRACT WITH A PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION CONTRACTOR;
(3) is entered into by the private transportation contractor and each
school district involved; and [(3)] (4) provides for transportation in
accordance with the terms and conditions of such [existing] transporta-
tion contract.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date upon which it shall have become a law.
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