Relates to contracts for transportation of children; requires that in New York city that the board of education or the city school district awards a contract or contracts for transportation pursuant to an evaluation of proposals submitted in response to a request for proposals, the board or city school district shall include employee protection provisions rationally relating to the promotion of a pool of qualified workers and the avoidance of labor disputes; makes related provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4625
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. DILAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to contracts for the
transportation of children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 236 of the family court act, as
2 amended by chapter 705 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. (a) Every such order for services to be provided after September
5 first, nineteen hundred eighty-six which provides for the transportation
6 of a child shall further require that such transportation shall be
7 provided by the county or the city of New York, as the case may be, and,
8 that the city of New York may delegate the authority to provide such
9 transportation to the board of education or the city school district of
10 such city.
11 (b) Such order shall further require that such transportation shall be
12 provided within thirty days of the issuance of such order, and, shall be
13 provided as part of a municipal cooperation agreement [or], as part of a
14 contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder in accordance with the
15 provisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law, or
16 in the city of New York, notwithstanding the provisions of any general,
17 special or local law or charter, as part of a contract awarded pursuant
18 to an evaluation of proposals submitted in response to a request for
19 proposals prepared by such city or by the chancellor of the city school
20 district of such city, and that buses and vehicles utilized in the
21 performance of such contract shall meet the minimum requirements for
22 school age children as established by the commissioner of transporta-
23 tion. When, in the city of New York, the board of education or the city
24 school district awards a contract or contracts for transportation pursu-
25 ant to an evaluation of proposals submitted in response to a request for
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 proposals, the board or city school district shall include employee
2 protection provisions rationally relating to the promotion of a pool of
3 qualified workers and the avoidance of labor disputes, including but not
4 limited to provisions for the preference in hiring of employees perform-
5 ing work for employers under contracts with the board of education or
6 the city school district, the preservation of wages, benefits, and
7 seniority for such employees, and other provisions relating to the
8 hiring, compensation, and retention of employees, in the request for
9 proposals and in the awarded contract.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
