Eliminates the requirement that when the board of education enters into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports students pursuant to a contract with a private transportation contractor, the board finds that the entry into the piggyback contract will result in a cost savings to the school district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5925
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 24, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to piggyback bus trans-
portation contracts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "school bus
2 route efficiency act".
3 § 2. Paragraph g of subdivision 14 of section 305 of the education
4 law, as added by section 12-a of part YYY of chapter 59 of the laws of
5 2019, is amended to read as follows:
6 g. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, section one
7 hundred three of the general municipal law, or any other provision of
8 law to the contrary, the board of education shall be authorized to enter
9 into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports
10 students pursuant to a contract with a private transportation contrac-
11 tor, provided that the board finds that the contract cost is appropriate
12 [and entry into a piggyback contract will result in a cost savings to
13 the school district]. For purposes of this paragraph, a "piggyback
14 contract" means a contract for the transportation of students that: (1)
15 provides transportation for one school district to a location outside
16 the students' school district of residence [to which another school
17 district is already providing transportation to its own students through
18 an existing contract with a private transportation contractor, other
19 than a cooperatively bid contract]; (2) provides transportation for
20 another school district for its own students to the same or nearby
21 locations through a contract with a private transportation contractor;
22 (3) is entered into by the private transportation contractor and each
23 school district involved; and [(3)] (4) provides for transportation in
24 accordance with the terms and conditions of such [existing] transporta-
25 tion contract.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
27 the date upon which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06976-03-3
