Relates to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming certain acts and proceedings of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District with respect to certain transportation contracts; allows transportation aid to be paid to the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District despite a miscalculation in the required bid opening time period.

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S6340-2011 Actions

• Jun 21, 2012: RECOMMITTED TO RULES
• Jun 19, 2012: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1358
• Jun 19, 2012: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Mar 6, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 30, 2012: REFERRED TO EDUCATION

S6340-2011 Meetings

Education: Mar 6, 2012, Rules: Jun 21, 2012

S6340-2011 Calendars

Floor Calendar: Jun 19, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 20, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 21, 2012

S6340-2011 Votes

S6340-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S6340

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
in relation to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming certain
acts and proceedings of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District
with respect to certain transportation contracts

PURPOSE:
To allow transportation aid to be paid to the
Hunter-Tannersville Central School District despite an error in the
required bid opening time period

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
The bill would legalize, validate and ratify a
transportation contract entered into by the Hunter-Tannersville
Central School District notwithstanding any failure to comply with
certain bidding requirements and would direct the state education
department (SED) to consider such contracts valid and proper
obligations of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District.

EXISTING LAW:
Current law requires five days between publication of
the advertisement for bids and the opening of the bids.

JUSTIFICATION:
The bill permits the Hunter-Tannersville Central School
District in Greene County to be receive state aid for certain
transportation contracts which the district entered into in 2011. Due
to an inadvertent error and the publication of a bid notice one day
later than planned, the required five days did not elapse between the
first publication of the advertisement for bids and the opening and
reading of the bids. Despite the unintentional error, it is important
to the district to receive the transportation aid so as to ensure
that sufficient funding is available to support the safety and
educational needs of the school children of the district. The
district should not lose its transportation reimbursement for the
contract due to a one-day lapse in the publication of its bid notice.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Funding is available within the state's transportation
categorical aid.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate.

S6340-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    6340

                              I N  SENATE

                              January 30, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
    printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

  AN ACT in relation to legalizing, validating, ratifying  and  confirming
    certain acts and proceedings of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School
    District with respect to certain transportation contracts

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


    Section 1. All the acts done and proceedings heretofore had and  taken
  or  caused to be had and taken by the Hunter-Tannersville Central School
  District and by  all  officers,  employees  or  agents  of  such  school
  district  relating  to  or  in  connection  with  certain transportation
  contracts of the 2011-2012 school year with various contractors, and all
  acts incidental thereto are hereby legalized,  validated,  ratified  and
  confirmed,  notwithstanding  any  failure  to  comply  with the contract
  award, approval, categorizing and filing  provisions  of  the  education
  law,  general  municipal  law  or  any  other law or any other statutory
  authority,  rule  or  regulation,  other  than  the  filing   provisions
  contained  in paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the educa-
  tion law, in relation to any omission, error,  defect,  irregularity  or
  illegality in such acts done and proceedings had and taken.
    S  2.  The  education  department  is  hereby directed to consider the
  aforementioned contracts for transportation  aid  as  valid  and  proper
  obligations of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District.
    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD14156-01-2