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S 718: Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Hicksville union free school district.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What S 718 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill legalizes, validates, ratifies, and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Hicksville Union Free School District. It aims to address any failure to comply with contract advertisement provisions, despite this, the bill does not consider any omissions, errors, or irregularities in the proceedings taken. The act takes effect thirty days after it becomes a law.

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Last action: REFERRED TO EDUCATION (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 264 words
  
  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 Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. All the acts done and proceedings heretofore had and taken 2 or caused to be had and taken by the Hicksville union free school 3 district and by all officers, employees or agents of such school 4 district relating to or in connection with transportation contracts 5 C577695, C577697, C577698, and C577700 of the 2022-23 school year, and 6 all acts incidental hereto are hereby legalized, validated, ratified and 7 confirmed, notwithstanding any failure to comply with the contract 8 advertisement provisions of the education law, the general municipal law 9 or any other law or any other statutory authority, rule or regulation, 10 other than those filing provisions defined in paragraph a of subdivision 11 5 of section 3604 of the education law, in relation to any omission, 12 error, defect, irregularity or illegality in such proceeding had and 13 taken. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02641-01-5 
Text of S 718 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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