What's happening
This bill retroactively legalizes and validates certain 2022-23 transportation contracts for the Hicksville Union Free School District, despite procedural errors.
Why it matters
Ensures uninterrupted state funding. By retroactively validating Hicksville’s 2022-23 transportation contracts despite procedural errors, the district avoids potential loss of state transportation aid, protecting its budget and services.
Prevents disruption for students and families. Legalizing these contracts ensures students’ bus services from that school year remain officially recognized, avoiding retroactive legal challenges or confusion over contract legitimacy.
Sets a precedent for handling procedural mistakes. This bill demonstrates legislative willingness to forgive administrative missteps when they don’t involve fraud or malfeasance, potentially influencing future cases involving other districts’ contract errors.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
718
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to legalize, validate, ratify and confirm certain transportation contracts of the Hicksville union free school district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. All the acts done and proceedings heretofore had and taken or caused to be had and taken by the Hicksville union free school district and by all officers, employees or agents of such school district relating to or in connection with transportation contracts C577695, C577697, C577698, and C577700 of the 2022-23 school year, and all acts incidental hereto are hereby legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any failure to comply with the contract advertisement provisions of the education law, the general municipal law or any other law or any other statutory authority, rule or regulation, other than those filing provisions defined in paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the education law, in relation to any omission, error, defect, irregularity or illegality in such proceeding had and taken.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02641-01-5
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Title of bill
An act to legalize, validate, ratify and confirm certain transportation contracts of the Hicksville union free school district
Purpose
Relates to transportation contracts of the Hicksville union free school district.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: Al the acts done and proceedings heretofore had and taken or caused to be had and taken by the Hicksville union free school district and by all officers, employees or agents of such school district relat- ing to or in connection with transportation contracts C577695, C577697, C577696, and C577700 of the 2022-23 school year, and all acts incidental hereto are hereby legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed, notwith- standing any failure to comply with the contract advertisement provisions of the education law, the general municipal law or any other law or any other statutory authority, rule or regulation, other than those filing provisions defined in paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the education law, in relation to any omission, error, defect, irregularity or illegality in such proceeding had and taken.
Section 2: This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.
Justification
Correction of technical error which would otherwise result in a loss of $2,000,000 in previously awarded State aid.
Fiscal implications
None to the state. This act shall take effect on the thirteenth day it shall have become a law.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the thirteenth day it shall have become a law.
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