STATE OF NEW YORK
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7079
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3602 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
3 f. In addition to any other apportionment under this subdivision, for
4 the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school year and there-
5 after, a school district other than a city school district in a city
6 having a population of one million or more inhabitants shall be eligible
7 for an incentive apportionment for providing shared transportation
8 services to one or more other public school districts. The amount of
9 such apportionment under this paragraph shall be equal to the product of
10 (i) the amount of revenue received from another public school district
11 for providing shared transportation services to one or more other public
12 school districts and (ii) ten percent. For the purpose of this para-
13 graph, the commissioner of education shall be authorized to approve any
14 contract for shared transportation services between one or more public
15 school districts pursuant to section thirty-six hundred twenty-five of
16 this article and provided a school district claiming an incentive appor-
17 tionment under such contract shall demonstrate cost savings in accord-
18 ance with guidelines established by the commissioner. If the total
19 statewide apportionment under this paragraph exceeds three million
20 dollars ($3,000,000), individual school district allocations shall be
21 prorated to ensure that the apportionment for such shared transportation
22 incentive aid does not exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000),
23 provided that such prorated apportionment computed and payable as of
24 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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1 for which such aid is claimed shall be deemed final and not subject to
2 change.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
4 the date upon which it shall have become a law and shall expire and be
5 deemed repealed three years after such date.