S7189-2011 Actions

• Aug 17, 2012: SIGNED CHAP.424
• Aug 6, 2012: DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
• Jun 20, 2012: returned to senate
• Jun 20, 2012: passed assembly
• Jun 20, 2012: ordered to third reading rules cal.459
• Jun 20, 2012: substituted for a10184
• Jun 20, 2012: referred to ways and means
• Jun 20, 2012: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 20, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 20, 2012: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1416
• Jun 20, 2012: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• May 1, 2012: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

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BILL NUMBER:S7189                REVISED 05/02/12

TITLE OF BILL:

An act
to amend the family court act, in relation to contracts for the
transportation of children

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF BILL:

This proposal amends Section 236 of the Family Court Act to enable the
City of New York to award contracts for transportation of
pre-kindergarten and early intervention children through a request
for proposals process.

The references to the board of education of the city school district
are to the definition included in section 2590-B(1) of the Education
Law as amended by Chapter 91 of the Laws of 2002.

JUSTIFICATION:

For many years the New York City Department of Transportation has
procured and administered contracts for the transportation of
pre-school special education children and developmentally delayed
infants and toddlers under the Early Intervention Program.

Several years ago, the City made the determination to move these
contracts to the Board of Education of the City School District of
the City of New York (known in the City as the Department of
Education or DOE), which already provides transportation to a much
larger student population. The transfer was made to draw on DOE's
expertise in this area, thereby enhancing the performance of this
critical function. This proposal facilitated the unification of bus
service under one department.

A similar version of this legislation was passed by both houses of the
legislature in 2011 and subsequently vetoed by the Governor. A3127-A
of 2011 was designed to allow the DOE to award these contracts
through a request for proposal process and would have required the
RFP's to include certain employee protection provisions.

This bill removes the employee protection provisions requirement and
would simply allow the DOE to award these contracts through a request
for proposal process. Currently, these contracts are awarded through
a request for bid process.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Similar to S.1368-A of 2011

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

Immediately.

S7189-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         7189
 I N  SENATE
 May 1, 2012
 
 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:

 

Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 236 of the family  court  act,  as
 amended  by  chapter  705  of  the  laws  of 1992, is amended to read as
 follows:

 3. (a) Every such order for services to be  provided  after  September
 first, nineteen hundred eighty-six which provides for the transportation
 of  a  child  shall  further  require  that such transportation shall be
 provided by the county or the city of New York, as the case may be, and,
 that the city of New York may delegate the  authority  to  provide  such
 transportation  to the board of education OR THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT of
 such city.
 (b) Such order shall further require that such transportation shall be
 provided within thirty days of the issuance of such order, and, shall be
 provided as part of a municipal cooperation agreement [or], as part of a
 contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder in accordance with the
 provisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law, OR
 AS PART OF A CONTRACT AWARDED PURSUANT TO AN EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS  TO
 THE  EXTENT  AUTHORIZED BY PARAGRAPHS E AND F OF SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF
 SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIVE OF THE EDUCATION LAW AND OTHERWISE CONSISTENT
 WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION, and  that  buses  and  vehicles
 utilized  in  the  performance  of  such contract shall meet the minimum
 requirements for school age children as established by the  commissioner
 of transportation.
 

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

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