What's happening
This bill creates a temporary incentive aid program for school districts that share transportation services, capped at $3 million statewide.
Why it matters
Encourages school districts to collaborate. By offering incentive aid for shared transportation services, the bill motivates districts to pool resources, which can lead to cost efficiencies and better use of taxpayer funds.
Requires proof of cost savings. Districts must demonstrate actual cost savings and get state approval for their agreements, ensuring that incentives go to genuinely efficient collaborations rather than just any shared service.
Limits and predictability. The statewide cap of $3 million and proration provisions mean that no single district or group of districts can disproportionately benefit, promoting fairness and budget predictability for the state.
Temporary and experimental. The three-year expiration provides a trial period for this approach, allowing policymakers to evaluate its effectiveness before making it permanent, thus minimizing long-term risk.
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Boost School Bus Sharing
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- Referred to education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7079
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 4, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district shared transportation services; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
f. In addition to any other apportionment under this subdivision, for the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school year and thereafter, a school district other than a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants shall be eligible for an incentive apportionment for providing shared transportation services to one or more other public school districts. The amount of such apportionment under this paragraph shall be equal to the product of (i) the amount of revenue received from another public school district for providing shared transportation services to one or more other public school districts and (ii) ten percent. For the purpose of this paragraph, the commissioner of education shall be authorized to approve any contract for shared transportation services between one or more public school districts pursuant to section thirty-six hundred twenty-five of this article and provided a school district claiming an incentive apportionment under such contract shall demonstrate cost savings in accordance with guidelines established by the commissioner. If the total statewide apportionment under this paragraph exceeds three million dollars ($3,000,000), individual school district allocations shall be prorated to ensure that the apportionment for such shared transportation incentive aid does not exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000), provided that such prorated apportionment computed and payable as of September one of the school year immediately following the school year
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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for which such aid is claimed shall be deemed final and not subject to change.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date upon which it shall have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed three years after such date.
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