Requires filing transportation contracts by school districts with the department of education, within six, rather than four, months of commencement of service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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950
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BUTLER, KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the filing of trans-
portation contracts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3625 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 474 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Filing of transportation contracts. Every transportation contract
5 shall be filed with the department within [one hundred twenty days] six
6 months of the commencement of service under such contract. No aid for
7 transportation [expense] shall be [allowed for a period greater than one
8 hundred twenty days] apportioned prior to the filing of [any] a contract
9 in accordance with regulations of the commissioner for the transporta-
10 tion of pupils with the education department. No contract shall be
11 considered filed unless it bears an original signature of the super-
12 intendent of a school district or the designee of the superintendent and
13 the sole trustee or president of the board of education of the school
14 district. The final approval of any such contract by the commissioner
15 shall not, however, obligate the state to allow transportation expense
16 in an amount greater than the amount that would be allowed under the
17 provisions of this part. The state, acting through the department of
18 audit and control, may examine any and all accounts of the contractor in
19 connection with a contract for the transportation of pupils, and every
20 such contract shall contain the following provision: "The contractor
21 hereby consents to an audit of any and all financial records relating to
22 this contract by the department of audit and control."
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01374-01-9
