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                                 7966--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 2, 2015
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Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUCHWALD
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
  to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
  2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
  and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district shared
  transportation  services;  and  to  provide  for  the  repeal  of such
  provisions upon expiration thereof

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  3602 of the education law is
amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
  F. IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER APPORTIONMENT UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION,  FOR
THE  TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN SCHOOL YEAR AND THERE-
AFTER, A SCHOOL DISTRICT OTHER THAN A CITY SCHOOL  DISTRICT  IN  A  CITY
HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE INHABITANTS SHALL BE ELIGIBLE
FOR  AN  INCENTIVE  APPORTIONMENT  FOR  PROVIDING  SHARED TRANSPORTATION
SERVICES TO ONE OR MORE OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL  DISTRICTS.  THE  AMOUNT  OF
SUCH APPORTIONMENT UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE PRODUCT OF
(I)  THE  AMOUNT OF REVENUE RECEIVED FROM ANOTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
FOR PROVIDING SHARED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO ONE OR MORE OTHER PUBLIC
SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND (II) TEN PERCENT. FOR THE  PURPOSE  OF  THIS  PARA-
GRAPH,  THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO APPROVE ANY
CONTRACT FOR SHARED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES BETWEEN ONE OR  MORE  PUBLIC
SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  PURSUANT TO SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF
THIS ARTICLE AND PROVIDED A SCHOOL DISTRICT CLAIMING AN INCENTIVE APPOR-
TIONMENT UNDER SUCH CONTRACT SHALL DEMONSTRATE COST SAVINGS  IN  ACCORD-
ANCE  WITH  GUIDELINES  ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER. IF THE TOTAL
STATEWIDE APPORTIONMENT  UNDER  THIS  PARAGRAPH  EXCEEDS  THREE  MILLION
DOLLARS  ($3,000,000),  INDIVIDUAL  SCHOOL DISTRICT ALLOCATIONS SHALL BE
PRORATED TO ENSURE THAT THE APPORTIONMENT FOR SUCH SHARED TRANSPORTATION

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11362-02-6
              

A. 7966--A                          2

INCENTIVE AID  DOES  NOT  EXCEED  THREE  MILLION  DOLLARS  ($3,000,000),
PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH  PRORATED  APPORTIONMENT COMPUTED AND PAYABLE AS OF
SEPTEMBER ONE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE  SCHOOL  YEAR
FOR  WHICH  SUCH AID IS CLAIMED SHALL BE DEEMED FINAL AND NOT SUBJECT TO
CHANGE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
the  date  upon which it shall have become a law and shall expire and be
deemed repealed three years thereafter.