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- Referred to education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.462
- Referred to education
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Removes repeal date for transportation contracts
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor David Gantt
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Title of bill
An act to amend chapter 698 of the laws of 1996 amending the education law relating to transportation contracts, in relation to making the provisions of such chapter permanent
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill makes chapter 698 of the laws of 1996 permanent which relate to the use of Request for Proposals for pupil transportation contracts.
Justification
Prior to the 1996 RFP law, children and school districts would fall victim to school bus operators with poor safety records and substandard operations because they were forced to choose school bus companies based on price alone. Since that time, inferior operators have been excluded from operating pupil transportation services and there is an ever growing number of school districts utilizing the RFP process.
The original sunset provision was necessary to determine whether the use of RFPs for pupil transportation contracts would improve the delivery of private pupil transportation services and it has, over a decade later, proven to be a tremendous success in terms of providing our school districts with an efficient and safe transportation system. More than that, continuing to renew these provisions every five years is an unnecessary waste of resources in addition to creating an unnecessary sense of uncertainty for schools that want to utilize the RFP law to procure pupil transportation services.
Prior legislative history
2005, 2006: S.5021 Passed Senate: 2005: A.9511 introduced in Assembly.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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