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History
- Referred to education
Companion bill
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Relates to transportation contract pricing benchmarks
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor David J. Valesky
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:A11164
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to transportation contract pricing benchmarks
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill seeks to provide flexibility in how school district's handle pupil transportation contracts by allowing them to extend the contracts by using either the current year's CPU-V of a five year average.
Justification
Under current law, a school district is able to extend pupil transportation contracts by an amount not to exceed the consumer price index for all urban consumer (CPI-U). It is provided with this ability because it allows the school district to continue using a contractor for pupil transportation that they know to be safe and efficient.
What this bill does is seek to provide school districts and school bus contractors with greater flexibility in terms of providing them with the ability to better project the cost of their pupil transportation contract extensions. It does this, in part, by preventing contractors whose contracts are extended from being severely penalized by years when the CPI-U is zero or negative through the use of a more accurate five year average of the CPI-U.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately provided that the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 14 of section 305 of the education law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to chapter 698 of the laws of 1996, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
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