STATE OF NEW YORK
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10184
IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
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 as part of a contract awarded pursuant to an evaluation of proposals to
17 the extent authorized by paragraphs e and f of subdivision fourteen of
18 section three hundred five of the education law and otherwise consistent
19 with the provisions of this subdivision, and that buses and vehicles
20 utilized in the performance of such contract shall meet the minimum
21 requirements for school age children as established by the commissioner
22 of transportation.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15545-01-2
