Bill Text: NY A10575 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-07 - referred to education [A10575 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A10575-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10575 IN ASSEMBLY June 7, 2016 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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 sixteen--two thousand seventeen 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. LBD15724-01-6
