What's happening
This bill provides financial incentives to New York school districts that save costs by sharing transportation services with other districts.
Why it matters
Encourages collaboration. By offering financial incentives, the bill motivates school districts to work together, breaking down barriers that may have previously discouraged shared transportation arrangements.
Direct reward for efficiency. Districts receive 50% of the money they save through shared transportation as extra funding, giving them a clear financial reason to seek out cost-saving partnerships.
Oversight and standards. The state commissioner must approve contracts and verify savings, ensuring that shared service agreements are genuine, effective, and meet established guidelines—not just superficial arrangements.
Targeted eligibility. The incentive is focused on most types of public school districts, but specifically excludes large city districts (like NYC), aiming the benefits at smaller or suburban/rural areas where shared transportation is more practical and impactful.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8838
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 22, 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
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 eighteen--two thousand nineteen school year and thereafter, a school district shall be eligible for an incentive apportionment for entering into a contract for shared transportation services between two 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 cost savings accruing to the public school district for entering into an agreement for shared transportation and (ii) fifty percent. For the purpose of this paragraph, the commissioner shall be authorized to approve any contract for shared transportation services between two or more public school districts pursuant to section thirtysix 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. For the purposes of this subdivision, a public school district shall mean common school districts, consolidated school districts, central school districts, central high school districts, union free school districts, and city school districts other than a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13820-01-7
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