Provides that a school district shall be eligible for an incentive apportionment for entering into a contract for shared transportation services between two or more other public school districts.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8838
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 22, 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
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 eighteen--two thousand nineteen school year and there-
5 after, a school district shall be eligible for an incentive apportion-
6 ment for entering into a contract for shared transportation services
7 between two or more other public school districts. The amount of such
8 apportionment under this paragraph shall be equal to the product of (i)
9 the amount of cost savings accruing to the public school district for
10 entering into an agreement for shared transportation and (ii) fifty
11 percent. For the purpose of this paragraph, the commissioner shall be
12 authorized to approve any contract for shared transportation services
13 between two or more public school districts pursuant to section thirty-
14 six hundred twenty-five of this article and provided a school district
15 claiming an incentive apportionment under such contract shall demon-
16 strate cost savings in accordance with guidelines established by the
17 commissioner. For the purposes of this subdivision, a public school
18 district shall mean common school districts, consolidated school
19 districts, central school districts, central high school districts,
20 union free school districts, and city school districts other than a city
21 school district in a city having a population of one million or more
22 inhabitants.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
24 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13820-01-7
