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H3976 • 2025

An Act relative to competitive bidding for school transportation

An Act relative to competitive bidding for school transportation

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Sponsor
Michael P. Kushmerek
Last action
2025-09-29
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act relative to competitive bidding for school transportation

An Act relative to competitive bidding for school transportation By Representative Kushmerek of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to competitive bidding for school transportation By Representative Kushmerek of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3976) of Michael P.
  • Kushmerek relative to competitive bidding for school transportation.
  • Transportation.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-09-29 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

  2. 2025-07-10 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1

  3. 2025-04-03 Senate

    Senate concurred

  4. 2025-03-31 House

    Referred to the committee on Transportation

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to competitive bidding for school transportation
By Representative Kushmerek of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3976) of Michael P. Kushmerek relative to competitive bidding for school transportation. Transportation.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.3976

Section 7A of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the sixth paragraph the following paragraph:-

Prior to the completion of an inspection of a school bus or other school transport vehicle inspected pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the owner of such vehicle shall submit to the registrar: (i) any successful bid to provide transportation to a school district in the commonwealth; (ii) all non-successful bids to provide transportation to a school district in the commonwealth submitted in the previous school year; (iii) the winning bids from all school transportation bids in which the company’s vehicle was not successful in the previous school year; and (iv) an affidavit attesting to the truth and accuracy of such information. If a company fails to provide the information required by this paragraph, the company’s school transportation vehicle shall fail the inspection. If the unsuccessful bids are more than 2 per cent below the winning bid, a vehicle shall fail inspection. If the company only wins 1 school bus bid a year for 5 successive years, a vehicle shall fail inspection.

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