STATE OF NEW YORK
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7672
IN SENATE
May 27, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. FLANAGAN -- 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 certain school
contracts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph e of subdivision 14 of section 305 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 464 of the laws of 1997, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 e. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law
5 or charter, a board of education or a trustee of a district, pursuant to
6 rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner, may award a
7 contract for the transportation of pupils or a contract for mobile
8 instructional units or for the provision, maintenance and operation of
9 cafeteria or restaurant service by a private food service management
10 company involving an annual expenditure in excess of the amount speci-
11 fied for purchase contracts in the bidding requirements of the general
12 municipal law in compliance with the provisions of paragraph a of this
13 subdivision or subsequent to an evaluation of proposals submitted in
14 response to a request for proposals prepared by or for the board of
15 education or trustee of a district. A contract awarded through a request
16 for proposals shall be awarded based on best value in accordance with
17 section one hundred three of the general municipal law. The commission-
18 er, in addition to his existing statutory authority to approve or disap-
19 prove transportation contracts, may reject any award of a transportation
20 contract or a contract for mobile instructional units that is based on
21 an evaluation of proposals submitted in response to a request for
22 proposals if he finds that (1) the contractor is not the most responsive
23 to the request for proposals, or (2) that the best interests of the
24 district will be promoted thereby.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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