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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to education
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1826
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Print number 5069a
- Amend and recommit to education
- Referred to education
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Relates to transportation contract pricing benchmarks
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Keith L.T. Wright
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5069A
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to transportation contract pricing benchmarks
Purpose
To use the average of the previous ten years of the regional consumer price index increases for the NY, NY-Northeastern, NJ Area, based upon the index for all urban consumers (CPI-U), for the contracts for the transportation of school children.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: Section 1 amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 14 of section 305 of the education law, as amended by chapter 273 of the laws of 1999, by requiring that contracts for the transportation of school children average the previous ten years of the regional consumer price index increases for the NY, NY-Northeastern, NJ area, based upon the index for all urban consumers (CPI-U).
Section 2: Section 2 sets forth an immediate effective date.
Justification
The Commissioner is currently required to reject any contract for the transportation of school children extension that fails to reflect any decrease in the regional consumer price index over the prior twelve month period. This legislation would extend that twelve month period to an average regional consumer price index over the previous ten years. A much longer look-back average would allow the state and school districts to better forecast costs and prepare for the future.
Legislative history
2015: New bill
Fiscal implications
No costs to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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