What's happening
This bill provides financial incentives to school districts for sharing transportation services, aiming to encourage cost savings and efficiency.
Why it matters
Encourages collaboration. By offering extra funds to districts that share transportation services, the bill creates a direct incentive for schools to work together, which could break down barriers between districts and foster more regional planning.
Focuses on cost savings. Districts must demonstrate actual cost savings to receive the incentive, pushing schools to find more efficient transportation solutions and use taxpayer money more effectively.
Limited eligibility and funding cap. The incentive excludes New York City and caps statewide payments at $3 million, meaning only certain districts will benefit and the overall budget impact is controlled—this could prioritize aid for smaller or more rural districts with greater need.
Temporary “pilot” approach. The three-year sunset clause means the program will be reevaluated, allowing the state to assess whether these incentives actually drive long-term savings and improved service before making it permanent.
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Who cares
School districts providing shared transportation
Eligible districts outside cities with at least one million residents could receive incentive aid equal to 10% of revenue from other districts for shared transportation, subject to proration under a $3 million statewide cap.
- Likely support
School districts purchasing shared transportation
Their transportation agreements could support incentive aid for the provider district if the provider demonstrates cost savings under the education commissioner's guidelines.
State Education Department
The education commissioner would be authorized to approve shared transportation contracts and establish guidelines for demonstrating the cost savings required to claim incentive aid.
Headline styles
Incentivize Shared School Busing
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Encourage Shared School Busing
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor John E. Brooks
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5455
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, WALLACE -- 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 nineteen--two thousand twenty 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.
LBD09581-01-9
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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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