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                                      May 1, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sens. DILAN, FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
       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    S 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