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State |
Status/Date |
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Summary |
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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Learnfare |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Brain Research |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Censorship |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Curriculum--Speech Education |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Does Money Matter? |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--Regional Entities |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Credit Recovery |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches |
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| Instructional Approaches--Constructivism |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homework/Study Skills |
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| Instructional Approaches--Official English |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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| Instructional Approaches--Time/Time on Task |
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| Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| International Benchmarking |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Special Populations |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Brain Development |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Data Systems |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Public/Private Partnerships |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Parent/Family--Research |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
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| Postsecondary Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--HBCUs/Minority-Serving Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--International |
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| Postsecondary Students--Low-Income |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Privatization--Education Management Agencies (EMOs) |
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| Proficiency-Based Approaches |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution) |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Climate/Culture |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Org. (K-3/K-8 etc.) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios |
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 | School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2012 | P-12 | Contracts for Pupil Transportation
H.B. 4029
In a provision concerning the powers of a school board with regard to the awarding of contracts, deletes references to (1) work/contracts wi...
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| NY | Vetoed 08/2012 | P-12 | Transportation of Child of Nonambulatory Parent
A.B. 9267
Allows board of education to provide transportation to school for a child living a lesser distance than two miles from school if the parent ...
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Safe Routes to School Program
H.B. 2626
Permanently establishes within the department of transportation the safe routes to school program to, among other purposes, enhance traffic ...
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Transportation Requirements for Disabled Students
S 618
Requires school buses transporting certain disabled persons to use flashing lights and establishes penalties for drivers who fail to yield.
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Transportation of Certain Pre-Kindergarten Students
S.B. 7218
Permits a district to authorize transportation for students attending a universal prekindergarten program in addition to transpotation funde...
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| MO | Vetoed 06/2012 | P-12 | Regarding Travel Hardships for Public School Students
H.B. 1789
This bill changes the laws regarding travel hardships for public school students by prohibiting any current or retired school administrator...
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| NY | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | New York City Busing
A.B. 8683
Provides that in New York City, the requirement that a district provide transportation equally to all children in like circumstances does no...
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Number of Out-of-State Miles a District Vehicle May Travel
H.B. 437
Increases the number of miles a district board may authorize its motor vehicles for out-of-state travel from 240 to 1,000 miles per trip. ht...
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| AK | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Transportation Funding
S.B. 182
Amends the amount of state funding provided to school districts for pupil transportation; Directs the department to adopt regulations that p...
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Physical Aptitude of School Bus Drivers
S.B. 191
Establishes the Lieutenant Dexter Holcomb Act. Prohibits a local board from hiring or entering into any agreement with any person for the pu...
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | BRAC Districts, Use of BRAC Bonds Funds for School Bus Fleets
H.B. 407
Changes the baseline date for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Distributions provisions in the education code from January 1, 2010 to...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Average Daily Membership
S.B. 1456
Limits the window during which the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) can conduct Average Daily Membership (ADM) audits to three years fr...
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| ME | SIGNED 05/2012 | P-12 | An Act To Define Cost Responsibility for Transporting Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students to the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, (LD 1839)
S.P. 637
This bill clarifies that the school administrative unit is responsible for the costs of transporting students who are placed in an education...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Background Checks for School Bus Drivers
S.F. 2221
Requires background checks for school bus drivers and makes penalties applicable.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Cate...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Pupil Transportation; Insurance Requirements
H.B. 93
Increases the minimum amount of vehicle liability insurance required to be carried by public schools in the instances of property damage, me...
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Free School Transportation
H.B. 1134
Provides that no fee may be charged to a parent or student for transportation to and from school if a school corporation provides transporta...
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| MN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | School Bus Safety and Standards
H.F. 392
Modifies provisions relating to school bus safety and standards for buses manufactured after December 31, 2012. Adds provisions for auxiliar...
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Transportation after 5 PM
A.B. 9057 - Transportation after 5 PM
Part A, Section 16: For the 2012-13 school year, requires New York City school district to either (1) provide transportation after 5 pm for ...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Compensation of Transportation Employees
H.B. 156 - Compensation of Transportation Employees
Repeals provision that directed local boards to provide salary adjustments to transportation employees comparable to those of classified emp...
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| ME | Issued 09/2011 | P-12 | Pilot Program to Refurbish School Buses
E.O. 24 FY 11/12
Directs the department of education and the Maine Military Authority to establish a pilot program to refurbish school administrative unit sc...
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2011 | P-12 | NYC Student Transportation Contracts
A.B. 3127
Relates to contracts for transportation of children; requires that in New York City, the board of education or the city school district awar...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Multifunction School-Activity Bus
H.B. 2265
Provides that "multifunction school-activity bus" means a school bus manufactured for the purpose of transporting 11 or more persons (rather...
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| NH | Adopted 08/2011 | P-12 | Alternative Education, Tuition and Transportation
NH ADC Ed 1301.01; NH ADC Ed 1302.01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06; NH ADC Ed 1303.01, 02; NH ADC Ed 1304.01; NH ADC Ed 1405.01
Implements alternative education programs at regional career and technical education centers or associated high schools. Adds language for ...
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Student Transportation Fee
S.B. 1 - Student Transportation Fee
Authorizes a board of trustees, under certain circumstances, to require payment of a reasonable fee for student transportation to and from s...
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Privatization of Transportation Services
H.B. 153 - Privatization of Transportation Services
Permits the board of a district to which the provisions of Chapter 124 of the revised code do not apply to terminate any of its transportati...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Bus Passes and Cards
H.B. 3506
Permits a school district to use transportation allotment funds to provide bus passes or cards to students for whom the district's regular t...
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
S.B. 369
Requires that any school bus procured for use in the state on or after January 1, 2014, be constructed with materials that enable it to meet...
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | State Vechile Use of Biofuel
S.B. 961
Allows state vehicles and state-owned heavy equipment to use any other biofuel, in addition to 5% biodiesel (called B5), as long as it is ap...
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Mixed-Use School Buses
H.B. 172
Permits pupils to be transported to or from school or a school-sponsored activity in a mixed use school bus that bears a valid state inspect...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Buses
S.B. 318
AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; establishing provisions for new school buses purchased on and after July 1, 2014, governing the permissib...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Parental monitors on school buses
S.B. 321
Authorizes a school district board of directors to create and implement a program to authorize a parent of a child enrolled in the school di...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Amending Opportunity Public School Choice Act
S.B. 788
Amends transportation policies affecting open enrollment students. Authorizes the receiving districts or charters to transport students to a...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | School Transportation
S.B. 1263--Transportation Fees
Permits schools to charge pupils for transportation expenses for field trips, athletic events and extracurricular activities unless state or...
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| KS | Adopted 03/2011 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 11
Allows Fort leavenworth Unified School Distrit 207 t0 transport grades 10 through 12 students who reside at Forth Leavenworth to Leavenworth...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Transportation
S.B. 77
An Act requiring school boards to approve pick-up locations for any open enrolled students who are transported in their resident school dist...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Video-monitoring Systems
H.B. 1911/S.B. 946
Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances to allow local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in...
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| DE | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | Unique Hazard Bus Routes
S.B. 310
Shifts cost of "unique hazard" bus routes to local school districts and creates a committee to recommend further cost reductions and savings...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Regional Transportation Systems Pilot Program
A.B. 11566 - Section 10
Directs the commissioner of education to conduct one or more pilot programs to assist school districts in the formation of regional transpor...
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| AK | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Governor's Coordinated Transportation Task Force
E.O.254
Resulting from report on 2/11/10 to the governor of earlier transportation task force. Recommendation from that task force proposed reconsti...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Reimbursement for Transportation of Early Learning Pupils
H.B. 4879
Provides that when calculating the state reimbursement for transportation costs, the state board of education may not deduct the number of p...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Transportation Contracts
A.B. 11067
Extends for another three years until January 1, 2014 chapter 55 of the laws of 1995 as amended by chapter 267 of the laws of 2007, relating...
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | School Bus Replacement Funds
H.B. 936 - Section 1
Provides that the replacement allowance for purchasing new school buses must also be available to refurbish existing school buses. http://ww...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Defining and Lengthening School Year
H.B. 2486
Defines "student instructional hours" as time during which students are engaged in learning activities, including regularly-scheduled instru...
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| MI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Pupil Transportation Act Amendments
H.B. 5363
Amends the Pupil Transportation Act to require school bus drivers to meet the physical requirements specified in federal law for operators o...
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Vocational-Technical Schools Bus Replacement
S.B. 379 - Sec. 5 and 6
Requires the state board of education to inspect the busses in operation at vocational-technical schools and to replace any school bus in se...
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Boards of Education Cooperative Arrangement
H.B. 5336
Establishes a grant in fiscal year 2012 to any municipality whose board of education makes a cooperative arrangement with at least one other...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Transportation
S.B. 392
Defines "educational institution" as any K-12 school, child care learning center, or college, university, technical school or other institut...
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Certain School Vehicles Not Required to Have Seat Belts
S.B. 245
Clarifies that a certain type of school vehicle is not required to be equipped with seat belts and is not subject to specified regulations i...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Exception to Law Prohibiting Driver of School Vehicle From Using Wireless Telephone
H.B. 934
This bill establishes an exception for the use of a handheld telephone utilizing push-to-talk technology by an individual operating a commer...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Prohibits Driver of School Vehicle Carrying Passengers From Using a Handheld Telephone
S.B. 321
This bill prohibits the driver of a school vehicle that is carrying passengers and is in motion from using a handheld telephone. The prohibi...
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Measures
H.B. 4223
Increases the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving and discharging children; authorizes th...
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | School Bus Driver Certification
H.B. 4512
Requires school bus supervisors to be certified to operate a bus or previously certified to operate a bus; modifies the test frequency for r...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Alcohol Consumption While Transporting Children
H.B. 1353
Provides that any person who possesses or consumes an alcoholic beverage while operating a school bus while transporting children is guilty ...
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2009 | P-12 | Background Checks of School Bus/Van Drivers
H.B. 19 - School Bus/Van Drivers
Directs the department to amend rule 3301-83-23 of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) that took effect August 27, 2009, and that specifies t...
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| IL | Adopted 11/2009 | P-12 | Public Schools Evaluation, Recognition and Supervision
23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737
Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in natur...
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| IL | To governor 11/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
S.B. 932
Directs the secretary of state to suspend a school bus driver permit for 3 years upon receiving notice from the employer that the holder fai...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | Community College
Postsec. | Transportation Fees in Community College Districts
A.B. 774
Amends existing law that authorizes the governing boards of specified community college districts to require that a transportation service f...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Penalties for Schoolbus Idling
S.B. 124
Amends existing law which establishes toxic control measures to limit schoolbus idling and idling at schools and regulates drivers of school...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Walking Schoolbus
S.B. 315
Authorizes the governing board of any school district to establish and maintain a walking schoolbus, defined as a group of pupils walking to...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Charter Schools Transportation
S.B. 509 - Charter School Transportation
Repeals provision that provides that charter schools are eligible for a transportation allowance to cover the costs of purchasing or renting...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Student Transportation
H.B. 3982
Removes a provision in the School Code that allows a school district to transport not more than 15 students to and from an interscholastic a...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Transportation of Special Needs Students
H.B. 2362
Adds contracts providing for the transportation of pupils with special needs or disabilities to the list of exceptions to the requirement th...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Fees for School Bus Driver Courses
S.B. 269
Amends provisions concerning the duty of the regional superintendent of schools to conduct courses of instruction for school bus drivers. Al...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Reporting School Bus Driver Performance
H.B. 353
Amends text to appear on the rear of each school bus regarding reporting driver performance. Adds that the area code must precede the phone ...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Sex Offender Can't Drive School Bus With Children
H.B. 1117
Provides that the Division of Motor Vehicles shall not issue or renew commercial drivers licenses with endorsements that qualify a person to...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Speeding Fine Funds
S.B. 75
Amends provisions specifying which programs may receive funds realized from fines for violating special speed limit in school zone. Adds the...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers Called to Active Duty
H.B. 3787
Provides that when a school bus driver permit holder who is a service member is called to active duty, the employer must notify the secretar...
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Privatization of Student Transportation Services
H.B. 1 - Section 3319.0810
Repeals Section 3319.0810, which allowed local boards to terminate student transportation staff positions for reasons of economy and efficie...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | School Transportation
H.B. 2795
Requires all school buses with diesel engines to be retrofitted with 2007 equivalent engines and 2007 fine particulate matter capture techno...
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| UT | Adopted 07/2009 | P-12 | Standards for School Buses and Operations
R277-601
Amends rule to provide for use of electronic and telecommunication devices on school buses. Adds provision requiring school bus drivers to p...
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| UT | Adopted 07/2009 | P-12 | Student Transportation Costs
R277-600
Provides significant new and revised language throughout to reflect legislative audit findings and funding formula study committee recommend...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Safe Transit to and from School
H.B. 983
Requires the director of transportation to award federal grants for school-based workshops and community planning that will reduce traffic c...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Safety/Detection and Prosecution of Individuals Who Pass Stopped School Buses
H.B. 440
Provides for the use of automated camera or video recording systems to detect and prosecute individuals who pass stopped school buses; incre...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Transportation
S.B. 610
Includes costs to retrofit or replace school buses for the purpose of reducing or eliminating diesel engine emissions in calculations of app...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Extends Use of Older Buses
H.B. 92
Allows school buses to be used up to 20 years of service, subject to annual safety inspections, by extending permissible, yearly waiver limi...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Seatbelts in School Passenger Vans
H.B. 537
Relates to the transportation of children in passenger vans; creates an offense if a person allows a child younger than 17 years of age who ...
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Contracts for Transporting Private School Pupils
A.B. 75
Adds new provision relating to transportation contracts for two or more private school pupils living in the same household.
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Funding Adjustments for School Safety Plans, School Nurses, Transportation, and Energy Efficiency
A.B. 75
Adds 121.91 (4) (L). Defines "local law enforcement agency". Provides additional funding if a local board and local law enforcement agency (...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Not Stopping For a School Bus/Additional Penalities
H.B. 481
Provides an additional penalty for violations of provisions that require traffic to stop for a school bus.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sec...
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Transportation Finance
H.B. 256
Relates to public school transportation support; provides that the only miles for which costs may be reimbursed shall be miles for transport...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Postcrash Procedures
H.B. 668
Provides for postcrash procedures by a police officer responding to an accident involving a school bus or head start bus.
https://www.reviso...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | K-12 Technical Bill for 2009
L.B. 549
Statement of intent: Legislative Bill 549 is the K-12 education technical bill for 2009. Substantive changes would include reducing the time...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Finance
A.B. 563
Ensures sufficient funding for K-12 public education for the 2009-2011 biennium; makes appropriations for class size reduction; authorizes s...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Transportation of Homeless Students
H.B. 2072
Relates to special needs transportation; establishes a work group to study special needs transportation and funding; provides for pilot proj...
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Biodiesel in School Buses
S.J.R. 14
Urges the use of biodiesel in diesel-powered public school buses to reduce diesel emissions....
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Equipment Grant Pilot Program
S.B. 500
Creates the School Bus Safety Equipment Grant Pilot Program to assist school districts in equipping school buses with video recording device...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Checks for all Public School Employees and Bus Drivers
H.B. 1450
Enhances the safety of children by requiring central registry checks for all public school employees and bus drivers.
http://www.arkleg.stat...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Bus Safety Plans
S.B. 499
Requires the Superintendent and Director of Transportation of each school district, in consultation with the appropriate law enforcement age...
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers
H.B. 1200
Relates to physicians allowed to certify that an individual is physically able to drive a school bus; allows a physician who is licensed in ...
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Transportation
S.B. 228
Requires the operator of a school bus or special purpose bus to visually inspect each seat within the bus at the end of each trip during whi...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Safe Routes to School Program
S.B. 399
Requires the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to establish and implement the Safe Routes to Schools program, a federally-funded program...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Alternate Transportation
H.B. 1793
Addresses alternative student transportation; establishes a safe routes to school program within the department of transportation; requires ...
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| GA | Adopted 03/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Retrofit Grant Program
GAC 391-3-21.10
Establishes guidelines for the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program School Bus Retrofit Grant Program and the Diesel Engine Retrofi...
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Energy
H.B. 1193
Adds school corporations, colleges, and universities to the list of entities that are eligible to apply for a grant under the E85 fueling st...
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Transportation
H.B. 2562
Exempts school buses and school activity vehicles from certain size limitations; declares emergency, effective on passage. Chapter 31
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Standards
37 TAC 1.14.D.14.51 -.54
Sets forth the vehicle equipment specifications for school buses, school activity buses and multifunction school activity buses. http://info...
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Standards
37 TAC 1.14.A.14.1
Establishes definitions relating to school bus safety standards....
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers
37 TAC 1.14.B.14.11 -.14
Adopts rules concerning school bus driver eligibility and application procedures. http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?ta...
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers
37 TAC 1.14.C.14.31 -.36
Sets forth the requirements of the driver safety training program for drivers of school buses, school activity buses and multifunction schoo...
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Advertising on School Buses
37 TAC 1.14.E.14.61 -.65
Sets forth the advertising display requirements for school buses (repeals and replaces earlier language). Establishes a traffic crash report...
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| CA | Vetoed 01/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Finance and Facilities
A.B. 4A
Relates to sufficient textbook requirements, county superintendent revenue limits, school district building maintenance funding, funding for...
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| MA | Signed into law 12/2008 | P-12 | Idling of Vehicles on School Grounds
S.B. 2628
Improves school campus air quality; restricts idling of school buses and personal motor vehicles on school grounds.
http://www.mass.gov/legi...
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| MA | Signed into law 12/2008 | P-12 | Bus Driver Training in First Aid
H.B. 4396
Relates to the licensing of school bus drivers; requires such drivers to be trained in a basic course in first aid including the administrat...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | transportation
A.B. 830
Provides a school or a school district would not be liable for transportation services provided by an operator of a charter-party carrier fo...
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Child Living Less Than 2 Miles from School
S.B. 1543
Allows board of education to provide transportation to school for a child living a lesser distance than two miles from school if the parent ...
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| NM | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12 | Funds for Higher Transportation Costs
H.B. 2A
Appropriates money from the general fund to the Public Education Department to provide supplemental funding to school districts for higher s...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Crossing Railroad Tracks
S.B. 2182
Requires a driver of a school bus to open the service door and driver's window before crossing a railroad track or tracks. http://www.ilga.g...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Passing Vehicles in School Zones
H.B. 1367
Prohibits passing other motor vehicles in school zones during posted hours. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Automated Bus Traffic Violation Monitoring
S.B. 2909
Authorizes the State and its municipalities to install automated systems on school buses to detect and monitor school bus traffic violations...
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| CA | Rejected by voters 06/2008 | P-12 | Fuel costs
V. 19
2008 Ballot., Proposition 10, Petition 1332 (07-0101, Amdt. 2S). Creates the Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act. Authorizes the...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Cell Phones and Bus Drivers
H.B. 402
Prohibit school bus operators from using cell phones while driving. Provides exceptions for enumerated emergency situations. Provides that a...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | School Bus Warranty Repair Work
H.B. 197
Authorizes school bus warranty repair work to be performed by repair facilities, authorized by the manufacturer or distributor, that are not...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Crossing Railroad Tracks
H.B. 1362
Requires school buses, whether transporting passengers or not, and motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire, to stop at railroad crossing...
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | State Board Oversight of School Buses
H.B. 231
Removes State Board of Education oversight over the design and operation of school buses.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegisla...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Week
H.B. 790
Declare the third week of October "School Bus Safety Week." http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb790.pdf...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day
H.B. 791
Declares the third Monday of October "School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day." http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb791.pdf...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | School Bus Routes and Railroad Crossings
H.B. 426
Relates to the installation of protective devices at railroad grade crossings. Requires that school districts annually provide the departmen...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers
S.B. 2988
Relates to pupil transportation and type III school bus drivers; provides a holder of a class D driver's license, without a school bus endor...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Special Hazards/Access to Transportation
S.B. 3080
Requires districts upon request of a parent to survey area within one and one-half miles of school to determine if any special hazards for s...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Signals
H.B. 1339
Concerns school bus safety signals requirements; replaces current statutory equipment standards for a school bus with the current federal re...
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Transportation of Nonpublic School Students
H.B. 655
By September 30 of each year, requires the secretary of the transportation cabinet to report to the general assembly's interim committee on ...
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Restraining School Bus Passengers Age 4-7
S.B. 6421
Requires school bus passengers between the age of four and seven to be restrained in accordance with one of the methods set forth in subdivi...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Idling School Buses
H.B. 146
Modifies the Environmental Quality Code and the Motor Vehicles Code by amending provisions relating to school buses. Requires the state boar...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | No Bus Drivers Under Age 18
H.B. 1160
Removes the exclusion for drivers of school buses that allowed children under 18 years of age to work as as a driver of a truck or commercia...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | No Wireless Communications Devices for Bus Drivers
H.B. 1218
Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies or when the vehicle is lawfull...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | No Wireless Telecommunications While Operating A Bus
S.B. 136
Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies, or when the vehicle is lawful...
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2008 | P-12 | Student Transportation Policies
S.B. 730 (sec. 1321)
Specified policies and requirements for transporting students to schools.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/20...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Transportation
A.B. 57
Authorizes state and local entities to secure and expend federal funds appropriated under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpo...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | biodiesel fuels
S.B. 70
Specifies standards for biodiesel and biodiesel blends and for renewable diesel and renewable diesel blends. Requires notification of consum...
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| OR | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | School Buses
OAR 581-053-0002
Prohibits use of school buses manufactured before April 1977 beginning August 1, 2008. ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Reporting Erratic School Bus Driving
H.B. 3624
Requires each school bus to display a readable sign indicating the telephone number of the owner of the school bus, and indicating that the ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Post-Trip Inspection Policy for School Buses
S.B. 166
Requires each school district, by January 1, 2008, to have in place a policy to ensure that the school bus driver is the last person leaving...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Electronic Recordings in School Buses
S.B. 665
Exempts from an eavesdropping violation an electronic recording, motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio recording, mad...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Biodiesel
S.B. 1452
Requires public school buses or other vehicles for student transportation that are capable of operating on diesel fuel to be capable of oper...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Idling of School Bus Engines
S.B. 5973
Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations requiring school districts with a significant number of children with asthm...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Reemployment of Retired School Bus Drivers
S.B. 60
Provides for reemployment of retired school bus drivers; provides for contributions and employer reporting requirements. http://www.legis.st...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Crossing Control Devices
H.B. 157
Requires every school bus to be equipped with a crossing control device by January 1, 2008. Requires the state to reimburse local school boa...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Restraint Systems on School Buses
S.B. 812
Requires passenger safety restraint systems be installed and used on new school buses operated by public or private schools.
http://www.ncga...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Bus Drivers Using Cell Phones
H.B. 183
Makes it unlawful to use additional technology or a mobile telephone to engage in a call while operating a public or private school bus, a s...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Endorsements
H.B. 1546
Requires a commercial drivers license that has a school bus endorsement to expire three years after it is issued.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.u...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Passing Stopped School Bus
S.B. 924
Makes passing a stopped school bus and striking a person and causing serious bodily injury a felony.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/20...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Pilot Reduction of Diesel Emissions
H.B. 1912
Establishes a pilot program to provide funds for local school administrative units to retrofit school buses in order to reduce diesel emissi...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Federal School Bus Safety Standards
A.B. 3978
Provides no person may operate a school for which there are no applicable federal school bus safety standards unless all occupants are restr...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Reduction in Diesel Emissions
H.B. 2172
Requires the Environmental Quality Commission to establish a goal to reduce excess lifetime risk of cancer due to exposure to diesel engine ...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Transportation of 8 or Fewer Students
S.B. 556
Allows the use of school pupil transport vehicles for the transport of eight (8) or fewer pupils to and from school and school related servi...
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Bus Drivers' Requirements
H.B. 41
Recognizes that school bus drivers have to have an annual physical and for an intrastate CDL.
http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis144.nsf/vw...
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| NY | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | P.J.'s Law
S.B. 3294
Enacts P.J.'s law; directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations requiring school bus drivers and school bus att...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | No Pre-1977 School Buses
H.B. 2456
Prohibits the use of school buses manufactured before April 1, 1977; provides that operation of a prohibited school bus is a Class B traffic...
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Bus Emergency Brakes
H.B. 5020
Requires that school bus emergency brakes, commencing with model year 2010, be equipped with an interlock brake system that, once applied, m...
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Transportation for Afterschool Programs
H.B. 6313
Creates a sixteen member special legislative commission whose purpose it would be to study transportation for afterschool and childcare prog...
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| SC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2007 | P-12 | Maximum School Bus Ride Time, Driver Training, etc.
H.B. 3161
Provides for the maximum school bus ride time, school bus driver certification training, provides that parents are responsible for the safet...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
H.B. 3190
Prohibits persons who have committed offenses such as vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of an accid...
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| TX | Vetoed 06/2007 | P-12 | No Diesel Engine Idling
H.B. 3457
Prohibits school buses with diesel engines from idling at schools or school events.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Transportation Access
S.B. 1713
Requires a county or school district to allow a parent to designate a grandparent's residence or child-care facility for the purpose of acce...
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Idling
S.B. 13
Prohibits the operator of a school bus from idling the engine while waiting for children to board at a school.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/do...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Size and Speed Limits
H.B. 1018
Extends the maximum permitted length of a conventional school bus from 38 to 42 feet. Increases the highway speed limit for a school bus to ...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Transportation for ELL Program
H.F. 2245 [High Needs ESL]
Authorizes district to provide transportation to allow a student who attends a high-need English language learner program and who resides w...
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Notification of Bus Driver Driving Status
H.B. 2266
Directs Department of Transportation to notify Department of Education of suspension, cancellation or revocation of driving privileges of pe...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Bus Driver Requirements
S.B. 51
Requires school bus drivers to deposit student at student's destination and makes failure to do so Class C misdemeanor punishable by fine on...
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| WA | Signed into law (partial veto) 05/2007 | P-12 | Bus Replacement Incentive (Lower Emissions)
H.B. 1303
Part of this bill requires the implementation of a new school bus replacement incentive program for vehicles with less emissions for the 200...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Hardship Bus Runs
S.B. 1236 (Section 10)
Clarifies uniquely difficult geographic circumstances under which a district may be reimbursed by the state board for transportation costs a...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Speeding Fines in School Zones
S.B. 8
Doubles speeding fines in school zones. Page 11 of 12: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/8.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Use of Cell Phone by School Bus Driver
H.B. 230
Defines the term cellular telephone; prohibits the use of cellular telephones by a school bus driver; establishes the fine for using cellula...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Bus Drivers
H.B. 1334
Relates to requirements for drivers of school vehicles. Specifies that if a school vehicle for which a commercial driver's license is not re...
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| NV | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Bus Displaying Flashing Red Signal
A.B. 66
Requires drivers to stop at any location for a school bus displaying a flashing red light signal.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/A...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Methodology for Transportation Funding
S.B. 5114
The Office of Financial Management (OFM), in consultation with Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and the Joint Legislati...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Hotline Decals
H.B. 1920
Provides that local school boards may display decals relating to local school division bus safety hotlines on school buses; local school div...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Interstate/Hwy. Max Speed Limit
H.B. 1729
Increases the maximum speed limit to 60 miles per hour for school buses traveling on interstates and highways where the speed limit is great...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Bus Warning Devices
H.B. 3084
Requires that any new bus placed into service on or after July 1, 2007, shall be equipped with warning devices that, at a minimum, include a...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Nonpublic school student transportation
H.B. 2302
Permits local school boards to enter into agreements with nonpublic schools in the school division to provide student transportation for a f...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Maximum School Bus Length
H.B. 2781
Modifies the statutory limitation on the length of school buses to not exceed forty-five feet, exclusive of front and rear bumpers. http://w...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Board Personnel Mileage Reimbursement
S.B. 100
Requires local school boards to reimburse school personnel for mileage costs when they are required to use a personal motor vehicle in the c...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Education Code Amendments
H.B. 2189
Amends Education Code in the following ways:
1) Prescribes authorities of county school boards.
2) Expands purposes for which schools may e...
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| AK | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | PUPIL TRANSPORTATION
4 AAC 27
Amends rules to the Department of Education and Early Development.Adopts the national specifications and revisions into the Alaska MinimumSt...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | School Bus Stoppage Guidelines
H.B. 5581
Prescribes the means and conditions for a school bus driver to activate and deactive alternately flashing lights when the school bus is stop...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Schoolchildren's Health Act
H.B. 1502
Enacts the schoolchildren 's health act. Provisions relate to: (1) sealing arsenic-treated wood in playgrounds and testing the soil on schoo...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Passing a Stopped School Bus
H.B. 2880
Prevents a person who is guilty of passing a stopped school bus from receiving a prayer for judgment under any circumstances.
http://www.ncl...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Proper Use of Activity Buses
H.B. 1155
Directs each local board of education operating activity buses to adopt a policy for the proper use of buses for travel to athletic events d...
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Revised School Bus Diesel Emissions Requirement
S.B. 1796
Revises the mandated installation requirement of closed crankcase technology on regulated school buses to comply with the state's ultra low ...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Transportation of Special Education Students
H.B. 7841; S.B. 2489
Requires that the state department of administration and the Rhode Island public transit authority develop a plan for the creation and imple...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Transportation for Students w/ Disabilities
S.B. 2489
Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to plan, develop, create and implement a statewide system of transportation of...
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| WA | Rule Adoption 07/2006 | P-12 | Schoolbus Driver Qualification Rulemaking Authority
WAC 180-20-009, -021, -101 thru -103, -111, -112, - 135, -140, -145
Complies with legislation passed during the 2006 session. Transfers the authority to adopt rules governing the training and qualification of...
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Transportation Cost Limits
S.B. 1205
Relates to school transportation and finance; makes an appropriation; provides that in fiscal year 2006- 2007 and each fiscal year thereafte...
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Certificate of Physical Fitness
S.B. 2272 - Section 45
Strikes subsection that requires drivers of school buses to present a certificate of physical fitness each year before being permitted to op...
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Bus Drivers
S.B. 2272 - Section 51
Specifies that the department of education has authority to suspend bus drivers' authorization to drive a school bus. Requires the departmen...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Incentives for Fuel-efficient Buses
H.B. 2591
Relates to in lieu fees and school bus grants; provides for monies deposited in the air quality fund to be appropriated to the department of...
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| GA | Adopted 04/2006 | P-12 | Early Intervention Program
GAC 160-4-2-.17; -7-.18; -5-3-.10
Clarifies rules regarding the Early Intervention Program for students in grades K-5 http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Sex Offenders
H.B. 713
Adds to existing law to prohibit access to school children by any person currently registered or required to register under the Idaho Sex Of...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | School Crossing Guards
S.B. 344
Creates new sections related to school crossing guards. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/344.pdf...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Strobe Lights on School Buses
H.B. 2513
Requires every new school buses put into initial service after July 1, 2007 to have a white flashing strobe light mounted on the roof. http:...
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| MD | Vetoed 04/2006 | P-12 | Discounted Public Transportation for Baltimore Students
H.B. 177
Extends through fiscal year 2010 the authorization for Baltimore City to use local highway user revenues for students costs of discounted st...
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| MI | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Pupil Transportation Act
S.B. 932
Modifies the pupil transportation act; regulates the equipment, maintenance, operation and use of school buses; prescribes the qualification...
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| MI | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Transportation Reimbursement
S.B. 866
Allows an intermediate school district that purchased a special education transportation service from a constituent district to continue to ...
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| MI | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Pupil Transportation Act
H.B. 5494
Regulates the equipment, maintenance, operation and use of school buses and pupil transportation vehicles. Prescribes: (1) the qualification...
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | School Bus Audio and Video Recording
H.B. 1362
Permits a school bus owner to make an audio and video recording of a student on a school bus if the school district authorizes the recording...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Shared Vehicles
H.B. 1582
Provides that any local government or combination of governments within planning district 16 may enter into cooperative agreements with a lo...
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Transportation of Homeless Students
H.B. 1006 - Section 1 and 2
Provides that a special purpose bus may be used to transport homeless students.
Creates new chapter on transportation of homeless students....
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Reimbusement of Temporary School Bus Drivers
H.B. 321
Authorizes a local school district to reimburse temporary or substitute school bus drivers for the costs required for a commercial driver's ...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | School Bus Speed Limits
H.B. 650
Allows for maximum speed limits for school buses of 45 mph on highways with posted speed limits of 55 mph or less and 55 mph on highways wit...
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| WI | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Fees for Transportation
S.B. 324
Relates to allowing school boards to charge a fee for transporting certain pupils not required to be transported to a public or private scho...
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| DE | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
H.B. 338
Relates to school buses equipped with a flashing white light; requires that the light be used at all times when the bus is in operation....
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | School Transportation Block Grant
A.B. 1110
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code. Would create the School Transportat...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Replacing or Reconditioning Older School Buses
A.B. 1107
An act to amend Section 42291 of the Education Code. Establishes a priority for allocations to small school districts to replace or recondit...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Transportation Costs for Special Education Students and Rural Schools
H.B. 1110
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code, relating to school finance. - Schoo...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Transportation When Hazardous Walking
H.B. 3680
In a provision allowing a school board to provide free transportation when conditions are such that walking constitutes a serious safety haz...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Safe Routes to School Construction Program
H.B. 744
Provides that, upon enactment of a federal transportation bill with a dedicated fund available to states for safe routes for schools, the De...
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Special education transportation
H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
For purposes of computing special education base revenue, the cost of providing transportation for children with disabilities includes (A) t...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Feasibility and necessity of safety restraints on school buses
H.B. 411
Requires the Nevada Association of School Boards to study the feasibility and necessity of safety restraints for use by pupils on school bus...
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| TX | SENT TO THE GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12 | Clean School Bus Program
H.B. 3469
From fiscal note: Establishes a clean school bus program within the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) program operated by the Texas Comm...
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 132. 05/2005 | P-12 | Requires local and regional governmental entities to conduct study of safe walking routes in certain area near schools.
H.B. 231
AN ACT relating to public schools; requiring local and regional governmental entities to conduct a study of safe walking routes for pupils i...
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Multifunction School Activity Bus
S.B. 81
Amends the definition of school bus in the motor vehicle statutes to allow for the limited use of motor coaches for school activities and to...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Bidding and Purchasing of Buses
H.B. 1485
Revises the state bidding and purchasing process for school buses. Requires SPI to solicit competitive price quotes for base buses and optio...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Traffic Law Violation Reporting
S.B. 1103
Requires school bus drivers to report certain violations of the traffic laws to the superintendent of the school district and to require the...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | An Act To Ensure That School Districts Are Using Safe Buses
S.B. 465
An act to ensure that school districts are using safe buses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb465.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Isaac's Law
S.B. 467
Enacts "Isaac's law." States that a person commits negligent homicide if he or she negligently causes the death of another person while pass...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Commercial Vehicles Driving Privileges
H.B. 402
Provides for a school bus endorsement on a driver's license. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0402.html...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School bus routes
H.B. 652
AN ACT ALLOWING A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO EXTEND A BUS ROUTE ACROSS ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO STUDENTS WITHIN...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities and Transportation
S.B. 590
Revises the duties and responsibilities of the division of public school academic facilities and transportation and creates the commission o...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Bus Driver Permits
S.B. 1002
Amends existing law relating to school transportation to remove a requirement that persons operating school buses have a driver's permit iss...
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| ID | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | School Bus Endorsement on Driver's License
H.B. 54
Establishes a school bus endorsement on a driver's license. Requires the successful applicant to pass appropriate knowledge and skills tests...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Bus Transportation
H.B. 133
Establishes a new school bus endorsement for commercial driver's licenses; sets forth qualifications; exempts current license holders with s...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Toll Roads
S.B. 115
Relates to toll roads; makes school district vehicles being operated in an official capacity eligible for a nonpaying toll-road identificati...
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| MO | Issued 03/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the Missouri School Bus Safety Task Force
EXECUTIVE ORDER 05-14
The task force is required to evaluate and make initial recommendations on the following topics: (1) developing strategies for improving sch...
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| NJ | To governor 03/2005 | P-12 | Pupil Transportation Services
S.B. 1298
Requires certain public entities to competitively bid in order to provide pupil transportation services to a local school district....
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Transportation of School Children
A.B. 2928
Increases the amount to be paid in each year of a new contract extension for the transportation of school children beyond that which is allo...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | School Buses
H.B. 1196
Defines and prohibits the unauthorized entry of school buses by persons over age 18. Provides exceptions for law enforcement officers, stude...
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| NH | Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | School Bus Transportation Rules
Saf-C 1300
Sets forth the procedures for the certification, instruction and qualification files of all school bus drivers as well as the maintenance, i...
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| GA | Adopted 11/2004 | P-12 | Adopt-A-School Bus Pilot Project
GAC 391-3-21-.10
Submits a grant regarding the Georgia Adopt-A-School Bus Pilot Project and the Clean School Bus USA Grant....
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| IL | Total Veto Stands. 11/2004 | P-12 | Speed Limits for School Buses
S.B. 2374
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for maximum speed limits for vehicles of specified weights and school buses inside and outside ur...
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| MA | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Governor Amendment of Supplemental Budget Section 30
H.B. 5083
Contains the text of a Governor amendment of Section 30 of the House bill numbered 5076 which relates to state reimbursement for school tran...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Drivers' Certificates: Medical Examination
A.B. 1812
Relates to existing law which requires applicants for an original or renewal certificate to drive a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, yo...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Transportation: Wireless Telephone
A.B. 2785
Makes it an infraction to drive a schoolbus or a transit vehicle while using a wireless telephone. Provides that this prohibition does not
a...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Home-to-School Transportation
A.B. 1253
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to examine home-to-school transportation funding formulas and determine how current formul...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Home-School Transportation
A.B. 2462
Authorizes, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, home-to-school transportation programs to receive a state funding increase in lieu of a...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Air Pollution: Schoolbus Idling at Schools
A.B. 2644
Codifies regulations adopted by the State Air Resources Board that establish toxic control measures to limit schoolbus idling and idling at ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Motor Vehicles: Commercial
A.B. 3049
Requires person operating a schoolbus to possess a valid commercial driver's license with a passenger endorsement and be
issued a schoolbus ...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 09/2004 | P-12 | School Transportation
14 DAC, Section 1105, 1.0 - 22.7
Amends regulation by adding a new section that includes the responsibilities of non-public, non- profit schools for the administration of th...
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| MO | Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2004 | P-12 | School Bus Inspection
11 CSR 50-2.320
Adds rules regarding the inspection of frames on school buses. Specifies out-of-service criteria in buses in need of repair. MISSOURI REG 15...
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | School District Transportation Laws
S.B. 4772
Provides that the transportation of pupils by a school district in child safety zones shall be considered regular aidable transportation; el...
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Safe Routes to School Program
A.B. 10057
Relates to establishing the safe routes to school program by the Department of Transportation; provides that money provided by the federal g...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | Community College
Postsec. | Transit Ridership: Low-Income Student Access
H.B. 2587
Adds to the list of programs to be funded with the West Central Transit District. Provides for routes, vehicle purchase and Community Colleg...
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Cell Phone Use by School Bus Drivers
S.B. 174
Prohibits school bus drivers from talking on cell phones while operating school buses while the vehicle is in motion and transporting one or...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Signal Light Requirements
H.B. 5969
Amends the Pupil Transportation Act to revise the number and color of signal lights on school buses; requires compliance with federal and st...
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| MT | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | School Finance and Transportation
ARM 10.7.101,.109 thru .111,.115,.118;10.10.202,.309,.316, .320, .611, .614; 10.15.101; 10.20.102, .106; 10.21.101B thru .102E (non-seq),10.22.102 thru .30.403 (non-seq)
Establishes rules relating to school finance and transportation. MONTANA REG 4551 (SN)...
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Specifications Governing School Bus Design
ADE 175
Establishes rules regarding the specifications governing school bus design. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20175%20school%20bus%20specs.p...
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| CO | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2004 | P-12 | Safe Routes To School
H.B. 1309
Concerns the creation of A Safe Routes to School Program; directs the Department of Transportation to distribute federal funds to local gove...
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers: Communication Devices
H.B. 379
Clarifies that school bus drivers can use a radio or telephonic communication device to make or receive calls for assistance. http://www.leg...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | School Buses
H.B. 384
Provides relative to the use of visual stop indicator signals on school buses; includes requirements regarding when a school bus, which is n...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Safety on School Buses
H.B. 1179
Relates to elementary and secondary schools, so as to provide that the offense of disrupting the operation of a public school applies to dis...
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| MO | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | School District Emergency Preparedness
H.B. 1070
Allows for the adoption of emergency preparedness plans for the use during natural disasters or other community emergencies by school distri...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | School Transport Seatbelt
H.J.R. 953
Creates a special joint committee to study the need to require the use of seatbelts in all vehicles used to transport school children in Ten...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 1443
Adds to and amends existing law relating to the public charter schools to provide transportation reimbursement for public virtual schools; c...
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | School Bus Standards
S.B. 124
Amends KRS 156.153 to require that school bus standards and specifications be set by the Kentucky Department of Education rather than by the...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund
H.B. 97
Alters the date by which the Secretary of State Police is required to report to the Governor and General Assembly on the status of the Schoo...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Operation of School Vehicles
H.B. 356
Authorizes specified school vehicles to be operated for a specified amount of time; providing that school vehicles operating under a certain...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Bus Driver Compensation
H.B. 1177
Relates to the State Board of Education; authorizes compensation for certain school bus drivers for expenses incurred when acquiring an init...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | School Transportation
S.B. 1331
Amends existing law to provide for the State Board of Education's power and duty to authorize the supervisor of school transportation to con...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Transportation Safety Awareness License Plates
S.B. 1311
Adds to and amends existing law to establish the Idaho School Transportation Safety Awareness license plate program; and to create the Pupil...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | School Transportation
S.B. 1344
Amends existing law relating to pupil transportation to provide that the current pupil transportation model contract developed by the State ...
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Special Purpose School Buses
H.B. 1253
Allows a school corporation to use special purpose buses to provide regular transportation of school children from their residences to schoo...
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| IL | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Transportation Costs
H.B. 763
Allows reimbursement for allowable direct costs of transporting pupils for regular, vocational and special education. Relates to reimburseme...
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| SD | Adopted, On November 2004 Ballot 02/2004 | P-12 | Provision of Certain Services to All Children
HJR 1003/Constitutional Amendment B
Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election amendments to Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of South D...
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| IL | Signed into law 12/2003 | P-12 | Charter Bus Services
S.B. 150
Amends the Vehicle Code. Provides that a person may also operate a certain type of charter bus if he or she holds a valid school bus driver ...
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| ND | Rule Adoption 12/2003 | P-12 | Minimum Standards Required for Buses
67-12-01-01
Establishes rules regarding minimum standards required. Addresses all public school buses operated in North Dakota must meet the minimum bod...
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2003 | P-12 | Smoking on School Buses
A.B. 3168
Prohibits smoking on school buses, even if students are not present; clarifies that the prohibition on smoking or carrying lighted tobacco o...
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| GA | Adopted 11/2003 | P-12 | Instructional Extension
GAC 160-4-2-.14
Clarifies rules regarding instructional extension, a state-funded instructional program beyond the regular school day to address the academi...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | 15-Passenger Vans
A.B. 626
Makes legislative finding that 15-passenger vans are unsafe; declares the intent of the Legislature that all school districts, private schoo...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Transportation Cost Apportionment
A.B. 1097
Amends existing law to reduce the annual mileage requirement for each county unified school district to be eligible for an additional annual...
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| GA | Adopted 08/2003 | P-12 | Student Transportation Surveys; Cost Development
GAC 160-5-3-.10; GAC 160-5-3-.11
Clarifies rules regarding student transportation surveys and standard cost development. Determines bus needs for allotment purposes, ascerta...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Chartered and School Buses
H.B. 2840
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the School Code. Provides for chartered bus drivers under specified conditions. Provides that school bo...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Qualifications of School Bus Drivers
S.B. 5582
Amends the education law relating to the qualifications of school bus drivers, monitors and attendants, in relation to the effective date of...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Private School Bus Drivers Safety Regulations
S.B. 392
Applies the safety regulations of the commissioner of education presently applicable to public school bus drivers to private school bus driv...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Stopped School Bus
S.B. 311
Provides that a driver must stop his vehicle before meeting or overtaking, from either direction, a school bus stopped at any location for t...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | School Bus Attendants Training
S.B. 5620
Requires school bus attendants to receive training relating to the special needs of pupils with a handicapping condition; provides that in a...
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | School Transportation
S.B. 202
Relates to school transportation; relates to the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of public education. http://w...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Bus Transportation
S.B. 614
Relates to bus transportation; requires driving records of nonpublic sector bus drivers to be checked for suspended or revoked licenses; pro...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Immorality Grounds for Dismissal of School Employees
H.B. 778
Adds a charge of immorality as a cause for dismissal of a teacher, bus driver, or permanent employee; defines immorality as conviction of a ...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers
S.B. 141
Requires a restriction which limits a person to operating only a school bus; provides that such restriction shall apply to a person who has ...
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2003 | P-12 | Removal of Contract Requirement for Part-Time and Substitute Bus Drivers
H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Removes the contract requirement for substitute and part-time school bus drivers.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.1/HJournal/02...
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers Who Are Insulin-Dependent Diabetics
H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Adds that school bus driver must be immediately suspended from duties, pending termination hearing by district board or authorities of nonpu...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Open Door Law
S.B. 169
Allows a governing body in an executive session to receive information about misconduct and discuss the status of a school bus driver, who i...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Child Transportation
H.P. 739 (LD 1018)
Exempts from school bus inspection standards vehicles vehicles designed to carry 11 or more people, including the driver, driver, that meet ...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requirements for School Bus Drivers
H.B. 2220
Amends the Uniform Commercial Drivers' Licensing Act. Creates new section allowing the driving skills test for a school bus endorsement to ...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | School Bus Drivers and Railroad Crossings/Highway Intersections
S.B. 2587
Requires school bus drivers to open the service door and driver's window and listen for approaching trains upon approaching railroad crossin...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | School Buses
S.B. 132
Increases the stopping distance for school buses at railroad crossings to a range of fifteen to fifty feet from the nearest track....
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Screening For School Bus Drivers
S.B. 795
Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers; provides for a driver's record check for any alcohol and drug related motor vehicle...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Unauthorized School Bus Entry
H.B. 74
Provides that entering a school bus to commit a crime or interfere with the driver, or refusing to leave a school bus upon the order of the ...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Display of American Flag Decals in School Buses
S.B. 987
Provides that Board of Education regulations addressing school buses shall include provisions for the display of decals depicting the flag o...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Cellular Phones and School Buses
H.B. 1042
Prohibits a person from using a cellular telephone while operating a school bus. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB1...
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| MT | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Passing School BusesSAME AS: LC0192
H.B. 112
Allows vehicles to pass school buses that are stopped to receive or discharge children in designated school bus turnouts; specifies the requ...
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| NJ | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | School Pupils on School Bus
S.B. 384
Provides that school pupil may not be on board a school bus unless the bus driver or other employee of the school board or school bus contra...
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Nonpublic School Student Transportation
S.B. 224
Allows school districts to provide transportation to nonpublic school students if no additional public funds are expended to provide the tra...
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| WY | Adopted 02/2003 | P-12 | Cost-Based Block Grant Model - Transportation
Chapter 20
Pertains to criteria and standards for determining eligible pupil transportation operation and maintenance costs, school bus fleet requireme...
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| MA | Signed into law 01/2003 | P-12 | School Bus Passing Penalty
H.B. 4405
Increases the penalty for passing a school bus. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/seslaw02/sl020443.htm...
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | Physicals for School Bus Drivers
S.B. 1390
Allows administration of physical examinations for school bus drivers who transport passengers and operate other pupil transportation vehicl...
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | Bus Drivers Can't Use Cell Phones
A.B. 445
Prohibits the use of a cellular or wireless telephone while driving a school bus; provides for a monetary fine for violations; provides that...
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | Bus Drivers
S.B. 1709
Provides for notification of charges pending for a disqualifying crime or offense against a public or nonpublic school employee or school bu...
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| CA | Rejected by voters 11/2002 | P-12 | Transportation. Distribution of Existing Motor Vehicle Sales and Use Tax
Proposition 51
Reallocates 30% of certain state revenues collected on motor vehicle sales or leases from the General Fund to the Traffic Congestion Relief ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Safety Rules For School Buses
A.B. 629
Extends the repeal date of certain provisions of law requiring traffic to yield the right of way to certain transit buses in specified count...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
A.B. 2681
Relates to the requirement that school buses manufactured on or after January 1, 2002, and purchased or leased for use in California have a ...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2002 | P-12 | Training for Bus Drivers
A.B. 2786
Requires school bus attendants to receive training relating to the special needs of pupils with a handicapping condition; provides that bus ...
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Bus Drivers' Use of Cell Phones
H.B. 6924
Provides that all use of cellular phones by a school bus driver would be prohibited, except in the case of an emergency....
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| RI | To governor 06/2002 | P-12 | Use of Cell Phones by Bus Drivers
S.B. 2164
This act would impose penalties against school bus drivers that use cell phones, other than for emergency purposes, while transporting child...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Bus Driver Certificates
H.B. 2106
Prohibits issuance of certificate to drive school bus in this state if applicant has been convicted of driving under the influence, vehicula...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Education Code Re-Write: School Bus Inspections and Hazardous Walking Conditions
S.B. 20E
Changes requirement that school buses be inspected a minimum of once a month to requirement that they be inspected pursuant to state board r...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Education Code Re-Write: Other Finance Changes
S.B. 20E
In funds for student transportation, shifts rule authority from commissioner to state board (see bill section 660, page 1239, line 8 ff); pe...
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | School Bus Fare Revolving Fund
H.B. 2480
Establishes a school bus fare revolving fund for the deposit of school bus fares collected by schools from students or guardians; provides t...
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| MD | Vetoed 05/2002 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund Sources
S.B. 625
Alters the distribution of uninsured motorist penalty fees to provide for a distribution to the Vehicle Theft Prevention Fund providing for ...
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Licensing of School Bus or Van Operators
H.B. 2580
States that a school bus or van operator shall be properly licensed to operate the category of vehicles that the operator operates as a scho...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Numerous Program Changes
H.B. 2515
Adds one nonvoting student member to state board, making total board membership 10, provides for application process and appointment of stud...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | School Bus Operators' Licenses
H.B. 322
Requires an operator of a school bus to obtain a special commercial driver's license endorsement from the Motor Vehicle Administration under...
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| WI | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Crossing Gates on School Buses
S.B. 179
Requires crossing gates on school buses; grants rule making authority; provides a penalty; requires Department of Transportation to prescrib...
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | School buses, display of flag
H.B. 1133
Makes changes to the voting and nonvoting members of the state school bus committee; requires the committee to adopt rules allowing the disp...
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Display of Flag on Buses
S.B. 6389
Provides that school districts shall not be prohibited from placing or displaying the United States flag on school districts buses when it d...
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| NJ | To governor 12/2001 | P-12 | Transportation in Llieu of Payments
A.B. 2928
Extends transportation services to nonpublic school pupils who reside in certain regional school districts that provide aid in-lieu-of payme...
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| NY | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | Two-Way Transportation Requirement
S.B. 5805
Relates to the return transportation of students from extracurricular activities; requires that transportation back shall be provided for a ...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | Task Force for a New Transportation Funding System
A.B. 1213
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Pupil Transportation Task Force to review the strengths and limitations o...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | Bus Safety
A.B. 1079
Requires every transit bus operated by a public agency on behalf of a public agency that provides public transportation services to be equip...
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Adjusting the Rules for School Bus Drivers
S.B. 170
From the legislation:
Currently, in order to get a school bus endorsement, drivers can not have been convicted of a felony within the past ...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Leasing of School Buses
H.B. 1955
, Authorizes local school boards to lease school buses from their school bus operators under certain circumstances; provides an exception to...
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Lease-Purchase of Buses
A.B. 2934
Authorizes 10-year lease purchase agreements for acquisition of school buses....
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Safe Travel Routes
H.B. 3712
City and county governing bodies shall work with school district personnel to identify barriers and hazards
to children walking or bicycling...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Rules for Busing Students
S.B. 501
Requires a person that transports children in the care of a preschool operated by a school corporation, a public elementary school, or a pub...
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Transportation Funding
S.B. 344
Increases the base rate for reimbursement for an individual transportation contract to a specified amount; increases the maximum reimburseme...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
H.B. 2464
Requires students to be seated while the school bus is moving....
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Bus Driver Licensing
H.B. 2181
Specifies school bus lighting equipment and school bus driver requirements and pre-employment criminal history checks; provides that a schoo...
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| NC | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Penalty for School Bus Interference
S.B. 45
Clarifies and strengthens the law pertaining to persons who interfere with the operation of public school buses; relates to clarifying that ...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Standards for Teachers, Administrators
H.B. 1045
Relates to elementary and secondary education provisions addressed in the creation of North Dakota Century Code; relates to administration, ...
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| NJ | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Contracts for Transportation
S.B. 2097
Expands the role of county superintendents relative to pupil transportation; requires them to arbitrate disputes between boards of education...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Transportation
H.B. 689
Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state department of public education for expenditure in...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Bus Owner-Operator Contracts
H.B. 108
The bill would allow an individual school bus owner-operator to exercise an option to convert their contract to a fleet operator contract wi...
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
S.B. 3
Changes the definition of commercial vehicle to exclude school buses regulated by the Department of Education, from the regulation by the De...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Transportation Safety
H.B. 85
Modifies the Public Safety Code by requiring vehicles used to transport students to comply with certain safety standards....
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| NE | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Bus Inspections
L.B. 36
Changes provisions relating to inspection of pupil transportation vehicles....
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Bus Safety--Traffic Violations
S.B. 905
Relates to passing a stopped school bus; provides that for the purpose of being reckless driving or having a civil penalty imposed, the test...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Bus Stops
H.B. 325
Specifies where a on a roadway a school bus shall stop to receive or discharge children....
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Speed Limits in School Zones
A.B. 280
Chapter No.521, Relates to existing law, under which, the prima facie vehicle speed limit is 25 miles-per-hour under certain circumstances, ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | School Bus Driver Qualifications
A.B. 1307
Relates to existing law, which the Department of Motor Vehicles is required to deny or revoke a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth ...
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| NJ | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Transportation of Certain Nonpublic School Students
A.B. 1337, AB 1674
Provides transportation or in-lieu-of payments to certain nonpublic school pupils in certain school districts. Permits the purchase of such...
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | P-12 | Bus Equipment
H.B. 7163
Requires all school buses to be equipped with a rear facing flashing strobe light; provides for the conditions under which such lights shoul...
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
H.B. 7380
Gives peace officers the authority to issue summons based on the statements of school bus drivers and bus monitors as to violations of the r...
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
H.B. 442
Requires that a flashing white strobe light be placed on the roof of every school bus to enhance the conspicuous of school busses in dayligh...
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Illegally Passing School Buses
A.B. 622
Extends the period for a judge to issue a summons for illegally passing a school bus and certain other motor vehicle and traffic violations....
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| RI | Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 | P-12 | Transportation Safety
H.B. 6858
Prohibits and would make it a misdemeanor for any person who enters a school bus with the intent to commit a crime, interfere with the drive...
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | School Bus Safety Features
H.B. 701
Requires that all new school buses be equipped with crossing control arms; requires a new or increased expenditure of local funds....
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Rules for Transportation.
H.B. 2862
Concerns school districts; relates to the provision of transportation for pupils. The bill outlines what students can qualify for transport...
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | School Bus Safety
H.B. 104
Establishes a grant program under which law enforcement agencies may apply for funds for efforts relating to enforcement of the law prohibit...
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Formula for Transportation Grants
S.B. 106
Makes certain adjustments to the formula for transportation grants to county boards of education; adjusts the time period for calculating in...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Bus Transportation Required for 10 or more
H.B. 3300
Provides that public and private schools must transport 10 or more students in school or activity bus; provides that vehicles purchased befo...
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Liability for Alcohol Consumption; Bus Driver Intoxication
H.B. 566
Makes a social host who furnishes intoxicating liquor to a minor liable under the Dram Shop Act for damages and injuries caused by the intox...
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | School Bus Rules
H.B. 1267
Requires the State School Bus Committee to adopt and enforce rules requiring each school bus to bear the name of the school district on the ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Safe Transportation Systems
H.J.R. 101
Directs the Department of Education to promote strategies to assist school districts in providing a safe transportation system; directs the ...
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| IN | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Requires School Bus Safety Review
H.B. 1296
Requires state school bus committee to review state and federal requirement for display of flashing yellow and red signal lamps by school bu...
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