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State |
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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 Attitudes |
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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 | In a provision concerning the powers of a school board with regard to the awarding of contracts, deletes references to (1) work/contracts with private carriers for transportation of pupils, and (2) contracts for the transportation of pupils with special needs or disabilities. Provides that at no time may a cause of action lie against a school board for awarding a pupil transportation contract per standards set forth in statute unless the cause of action is based on fraudulent conduct. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0951.pdf
Title: H.B. 4029
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 08/2012 | P-12 | Allows board of education to provide transportation to school for a child living a lesser distance than two miles from school if the parent or guardian of the child is nonambulatory and unable to accompany the child to and from school. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A09267&term=&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 9267
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Permanently establishes within the department of transportation the safe routes to school program to, among other purposes, enhance traffic safety around schools, and enable and encourage children to walk and bicycle to school. Creates the position of safe routes to school program coordinator to serve as a central point of contact for the program. Directs a county designated office to provide safe routes to school funds for school-based and community-based workshops and infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects that will reduce vehicular traffic and congestion, encourage walking and bicycling, and promote health and safety around schools. Requires that Implementation of the county safe routes to school program take specified needs into consideration. Identifies components that county sate routes to school program grant proposals must address. Directs the director of transportation to develop streamlined program processes, and to annually report to the legislature on teh status and progress of the safe routes to school program before each legislative session. Establishes a safe routes to school program special fund. Assesses a surcharge of $25 for violations of speeding in a school zone and a $10 surcharge on various traffic violations and deposits these surcharges into the safe routes to school program special fund. Appropriates funds from the safe routes to school program special fund. Effective September 1, 2012. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/HB2626_CD1_.pdf
Title: H.B. 2626
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Requires school buses transporting certain disabled persons to use flashing lights and establishes penalties for drivers who fail to yield.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/AL12/20_.PDF
Title: S 618
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Permits a district to authorize transportation for students attending a universal prekindergarten program in addition to transpotation funded by such program or transportation for students attending another district-sponsored or -run prekindergarten program, within district-established mileage limits. If provided, requires such transportation to be provided equally to all students in like circumstances residing in the district. Requires that the district bear the cost of such transportation (cost of such transportation not subject to state aid). http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S07218&term=&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 7218
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| MO | Vetoed 06/2012 | P-12 |
This bill changes the laws regarding travel hardships for public school students by prohibiting any current or retired school administrator from appointment to a board of arbitration regarding an appeal regarding a change in a school district's boundaries in which the voters in one of the districts votes against the change and the voters of the other district vote for the change.
In the provisions regarding the Commissioner of Education within the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education reassigning a pupil because of a travel hardship, the bill authorizes the continuance of any assignment granted before August 28, 2012, until the student, and any sibling of the student, completes his or her course of study or the parent withdraws the student.
The bill establishes a process to make reassignment mandatory for any pupil or sibling of a pupil living in St. Albans, St. Elizabeth, or Gravois Mills, under conditions which include a minimum driving distance of at least 17 miles to the current school, the other school is at least seven miles closer, and the transfer will not cause the receiving district to exceed its class size restrictions. A reassignment must be made in the order that applications are received. If a parent withdraws a student after receiving a travel hardship, any subsequent hardship assignment is discretionary. A pupil must be eligible to apply for reassignment under the enrollment requirements established in the bill, and the sending district must pay an amount which cannot exceed the pro rata cost of instruction to the receiving district. http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/truly/HB1789T.htm Veto letter:http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/rpt/HB1789vl.pdf
Title: H.B. 1789
Source: www.house.mo.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Provides that in New York City, the requirement that a district provide transportation equally to all children in like circumstances does not apply to the use of existing contract bus service provided for 7th and 8th graders. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08683&term=&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 8683
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | 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. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_437_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 437
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AK | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Amends the amount of state funding provided to school districts for pupil transportation; Directs the department to adopt regulations that provide for oversight of and support to school districts in achieving a safe and cost-effective student transportation system. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/27/Bills/SB0182C.PDF
Title: S.B. 182
Source: legis.state.ak.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Establishes the Lieutenant Dexter Holcomb Act. Prohibits a local board from hiring or entering into any agreement with any person for the purposes of operating a school bus transporting students unless the person is physically qualified to drive a school bus. Establishes requirements an individual must meet to be physically qualified to drive a school bus. Requires all new and currently employed school bus drivers to pass a physical examination, performed by a duly licensed physician, within three months after the effective date of this act, and at least once every two years thereafter. Requires local boards to document results of physical exams. Permits a driver holiding a valid Alabama school bus driver certificate to be grandfathered in under specified circumstances. Provides that failure to comply with these provisions will result in the driver losing his/her Alabama School Bus Driver Certificate issued by the state department of education.
Title: S.B. 191
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Changes the baseline date for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Distributions provisions in the education code from January 1, 2010 to January 1, 2006. Increases the amount the Alabama Public School and College Authority is authorized to issue bonds for (for renovation or construction of school faciliities in BRAC-impacted areas) from $175 million to $208 million; extends purpose of such bonds to include school bus fleet renewal. Amends qualifications for recipient school districts. By January 2013, requires the authority to allocate, and the department to distribute such allocation of $33 million of bond principal for local boards to renew school bus fleets. Provides that local procedures for administering such school bus fleet funds are different from existing procedures for administration of BRAC school facility construction and renovation funds. Repeals a provision that in order to qualify for bond proceeds, a local school system may redirect an existing tax not currently dedicated to schools to qualify for bonds.
Title: H.B. 407
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Limits the window during which the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) can conduct Average Daily Membership (ADM) audits to three years from the time the monitoring or audit activity begins; Allows ADE to adjust funding for a school district or charter school that was overpaid or underpaid during the audit window if ADE issues those findings within two years of the beginning of monitoring or audit activity; Requires the correction of errors in the calculation of state aid or budget limits for a school district or charter school that are discovered within the previous three years, rather than the previous year.
Revises the method for calculating ADM from one that relies on counting the total enrollment of students on four dates each year to one that counts the total enrollment of each school day through the first 100 or 200 days in session, as applicable. Specifies that high school students are classified as either full-time or fractional students based on the number of classes they take, each of which, if taught each school day for the minimum number of days required in a school year, would meet for a minimum of 123 hours per year, or the equivalent.
Adjusts the transportation support level to provide additional support to school districts that elect to offer 200 days of instruction, rather than 180.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0357.pdf
Title: S.B. 1456
Source: azleg.gov
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| ME | SIGNED 05/2012 | P-12 | This bill clarifies that the school administrative unit is responsible for the costs of transporting students who are placed in an educational program at the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf..
Title: S.P. 637
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Requires background checks for school bus drivers and makes penalties applicable.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2221
Title: S.F. 2221
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Increases the minimum amount of vehicle liability insurance required to be carried by public schools in the instances of property damage, medical expense payment coverage, and accidents when all persons are injured. The bill also requires taxicabs providing transportation of students under contract with a school division to have certain minimum amounts of vehicle liability insurance.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB93ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 93
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Provides that no fee may be charged to a parent or student for transportation to and from school if a school corporation provides transportation or contracts with an educational service center to provide transportation. Provides that parent supplemental transportation contracts do not apply to transportation provided by an educational service center. Makes a technical correction concerning school bus replacement plans. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1134.1.html
Title: H.B. 1134
Source: www.in.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Modifies provisions relating to school bus safety and standards for buses manufactured after December 31, 2012. Adds provisions for auxiliary fans and surveillance systems.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/showPDF.php
Title: H.F. 392
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | 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 public and nonpublic K-6 students enrolled at regularly scheduled academic classes from 9:30 am or earlier to 5 pm or later on weekdays and who live a specified distance from their school of attendance, or (2) reimburse the cost incurred by licensed transportation carriers with which the district has contracted, for transportation of such students. Specifies the district does not satisfy its obligation under these provisions by providing public service transportation. Directs the New York City public schools chancellor to prescribe the most cost-effective system for implementing these requirements, taking into consideration the costs associated with options 1 and 2 above, while at the same time maximizing student safety considering the ages of the students being transported. Chapter 57: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A09057&term=&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y#jump_to_Text
Title: A.B. 9057 - Transportation after 5 PM
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Repeals provision that directed local boards to provide salary adjustments to transportation employees comparable to those of classified employees authorized under Section 53A-17a-137, when dividing the weighted pupil unit for salary adjustment purposes. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0156.pdf
Title: H.B. 156 - Compensation of Transportation Employees
Source: le.utah.gov
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| ME | Issued 09/2011 | P-12 | Directs the department of education and the Maine Military Authority to establish a pilot program to refurbish school administrative unit school buses that meet eligibility criteria to be determined jointly by the department and the authority. Provides the governor's office will use best efforts to seek statutory changes authorizing the reimbursement of funds to school administrative units in Fiscal Year 2013 for amounts expended in Fiscal Year 2012. Provides this executive order will expire on June 30, 2012. http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov_Executive_Orders&id=307850&v=article2011
Title: E.O. 24 FY 11/12
Source: www.maine.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2011 | P-12 | Relates to contracts for transportation of children; requires that in New York City, the board of education or the city school district award a contract or contracts for transportation pursuant to an evaluation of proposals submitted in response to a request for proposals. Requires that the NYC board or city school district include employee protection provisions rationally relating to the promotion of a pool of qualified workers and the avoidance of labor disputes; makes related provisions. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A03127&term=&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 3127
Source:
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Provides that "multifunction school-activity bus" means a school bus manufactured for the purpose of transporting 11 or more persons (rather than 11 to 15 persons), including the driver, whose purposes do not include transporting students to and from home or school bus stops. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0378.pdf
Title: H.B. 2265
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NH | Adopted 08/2011 | P-12 | Implements alternative education programs at regional career and technical education centers or associated high schools. Adds language for 'at risk' students and for tuition and transportation for 'at risk' students as required by changes in the state law of 2007. Ed 1405 will eliminate reimbursement for bus contracts.
Title: 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
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes a board of trustees, under certain circumstances, to require payment of a reasonable fee for student transportation to and from school. Page 138 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 1 - Student Transportation Fee
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | 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 transportation staff positions and enter into a contract with an independent agent for the provision of transportation services for some or all of its students. Permits a contract to be entered into only if specified conditions are satisfied (i.e., expiration of effective collective bargaining agreements, an employee whose position is terminated is permitted to fill any district vacancy for which the employee is qualified, the contract contains a stipulation that the contracting agent must consider hiring any district employees whose positions are terminated, etc.) Provides that if the board, after terminating any positions, fails to comply with the conditions specified in statute or fails to enforce on the agent specified contractual obligations, the terminations must be void and the board must reinstate the positions, fill them with the employees who filled those positions just prior to the terminations, and compensate them at a rate equal to their rate of compensation in those positions just prior to the terminations, plus any increases paid since the terminations to other nonteaching employees. Provides the employees must also be entited to back pay from the date of the terminations. Provides any employee aggrieved by the failure of the board to comply with any condition specified in statute or to enforce on the agent its contractual obligations must have the right to sue the board for reinstatement of the employee's former position.
Pages 366-368 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Privatization of Transportation Services
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits a school district to use transportation allotment funds to provide bus passes or cards to students for whom the district's regular transportation system is not a feasible method of providing transportation.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB03506F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 3506
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 the fire safety criteria established by the National School Transportation Specifications and Procedures adopted at the most recent National Congress on School Transportation. The Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), with the advice and consent of the Maryland State Department of Education, must adopt regulations to promote the safety of school buses. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/sb/sb0369e.pdf
Title: S.B. 369
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a fuel or fuel additive or approved by the EPA Renewable Fuels Standard 2 Program, to meet the biodiesel requirements in current law. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_567_sb0961E.pdf
Title: S.B. 961
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | 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 inspection sticker
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/HB0172.html
Title: H.B. 172
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; establishing provisions for new school buses purchased on and after July 1, 2014, governing the permissible flammability of occupant seating and plastic components contained within the engine compartments of the school buses; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/SB/SB318_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 318
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district board of directors to create and implement a program to authorize a parent of a child enrolled in the school district to act as a monitor in a school bus. Directs the Commission for Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to adopt rules to implement this section.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB321.pdf
Title: S.B. 321
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Amends transportation policies affecting open enrollment students. Authorizes the receiving districts or charters to transport students to and from the transferring district or charter school, and the cost of transporting students will be the responsibility of the transferring district or charter school. Caps transferring district/charter costs for transportation at $400 per student per year.
Declares that a district may not deny a student the ability to attend a school in the student's school district of choice under unless there is a lack of capacity at the school in the student's school district of choice. Defines "lack of capacity."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB788.pdf
Title: S.B. 788
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Permits schools to charge pupils for transportation expenses for field trips, athletic events and extracurricular activities unless state or federal law requires that transportation be provided. This provisison would not entitle school districts to additional state formula funding for transportation.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1263h.pdf
Title: S.B. 1263--Transportation Fees
Source: htttp://www.azleg.gov
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| KS | Adopted 03/2011 | P-12 | Allows Fort leavenworth Unified School Distrit 207 t0 transport grades 10 through 12 students who reside at Forth Leavenworth to Leavenworth High School in Unified School District 453. Requires related transportation weighting to be calculated using only students counted on September 20. Bill also changes the school finance law to redefine non-resident pupil. Non-resident pupil would be defined as a student or member of the student's family who lives 2.5 or more files from the attendance center the student would attend in the district in which the student resides. Previously was "10 miles or more". Bill clarifies that provisions of the bill would not apply to school districts located in Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee or Wyandotte counties.
http://kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/documents/sb11_01_0000.pdf
Title: S.B. 11
Source: http://kslegislature.org/
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | An Act requiring school boards to approve pick-up locations for any open enrolled students who are transported in their resident school districts by receiving school districts.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bills/SB77ENR.pdf
Title: S.B. 77
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes localities to adopt ordinances to allow local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in order to detect drivers passing stopped school buses. This bill is identical to SB 946.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB1911ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1911/S.B. 946
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| DE | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | Shifts cost of "unique hazard" bus routes to local school districts and creates a committee to recommend further cost reductions and savings in student transportation. (section 357)
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+310/$file/legis.pdf?open
Title: S.B. 310
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov/
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner of education to conduct one or more pilot programs to assist school districts in the formation of regional transportation systems. Provides these may include providing transportation services jointly with other school districts or boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES), or authorizing school districts and BOCES to enter into contracts with municipalities, counties or the state office of children and family services to provide transportation services. Directs the commissioner of education to report annually to the board of regents, governor and specified legislative leaders on the pilot. Directs the commissioner, by November 2012, to submit a report describing the findings of the pilot projects. In developing the report, directs the commissioner to estimate the efficiencies and cost-effectiveness that may be derived from regional transportation systems, and the extent to which school districts, other participating entities, and the state achieve savings through the formation of regional transportation systems. Also directs the commissioner to identify barriers to implementation of regional transportation systems throughout the state, strategies to address such barriers, statutory and regulatory changes needed to promote the implementation of such regional transportation systems, mechanisms to ensure proper accountability and oversight of the administration of regional transportation systems, and any other information or analysis as the commissioner deems appropriate. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A11566&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 11566 - Section 10
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| AK | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Resulting from report on 2/11/10 to the governor of earlier transportation task force. Recommendation from that task force proposed reconstitution of the task force to complete the work started with the initial effort and to perform additional tasks. The Governor's Coordinated Transportation Task Force is to serve as advisory committee to the governor to develop policy and procedural recommendations for existing programs of state, federal and local agencies that provide or coordinate community-based transportation services in communities in the state for persons with special needs or special circumstances in programs administered primarily through the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, the Department of Health and Social Services, the Department of Education and Early Development, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development, the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs, the Alaska Commission on Aging, the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education and other agencies. The task force shall perform the following duties: (1) Gather detailed information on: (a) customer bases served; (b) the manner and type of service provided; (c) the costs for each program; and (d) the range of financing available to state, federal, and local government agencies and private entities that administer or support community-based transportation services for persons with special needs or special circumstances; (2) Analyze and make recommendations to determine improved ways agencies and private entities can coordinate and combine services to achieve cost savings in the state's largest city and in other communities as the task force's resources permit; (3) Perform a needs assessment to quantify transportation demands for persons with special needs or circumstances and recommend the removal of barriers that prevent coordination of these services to meet those demands; (4) Generate a draft coordinated transportation action plan that articulates a shared statewide vision of human service public transportation and formulates the recommendations of the first report into outcome-based strategies; (5) Review existing federal-aid programs related to urban, rural and tribal transit services and propose strategies for the Administration to pursue as part of the reauthorization of the new federal surface transportation program; (6) Recommend specific strategies to implement the urban, rural and tribal elements of the new federal surface transportation program; (7) Propose draft legislation or other strategies that support the coordinated infrastructure use of state, federal and local resources; (8) Propose changes that would allow for federal transportation activities and funding to be coordinated with the efforts of state, local and private organizations; and (9) Prepare and issue a final report, including recommendations, concerning the duties set out in this Order. The task force shall forward its final report to the Governor on or before January 15, 2012 or 18 months after the effective date of this order, whichever is later. The task force ceases to exist on the date that the report is forwarded to the governor.
Title: E.O.254
Source: http://gov.state.ak.us/admin-orders/254.html
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Provides that when calculating the state reimbursement for transportation costs, the state board of education may not deduct the number of pupils enrolled in early education programs from the number of pupils eligible for reimbursement if the pupils enrolled in the early education programs are transported at the same time as other eligible pupils. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-1264.pdf
Title: H.B. 4879
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | 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 to student transportation contract provisions. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A11067&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 11067
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Provides that the replacement allowance for purchasing new school buses must also be available to refurbish existing school buses. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb936.pdf
Title: H.B. 936 - Section 1
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Defines "student instructional hours" as time during which students are engaged in learning activities, including regularly-scheduled instruction and learning assessments within the curriculum, and excludes lunch, recess or passing time. Directs the department of education to maximize the amount of student instructional hours provided at all public schools, except charter schools, under relevant collective bargaining agreements in effect during the 2010-11 school year. For the 2011-13 school years, directs all public schools, except charter schools, to implement a 180-day school year (excluding professional development and other non-instructional days) that includes 915 student instructional hours for the elementary grades, and 990 student instructional hours for the secondary grades. For the 2013-15 school years, requires all public schools, except charter schools, to implement a school year of 1,080 days (excluding professional development and other non-instructional days) that includes 1,080 student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades.Directs the department of education to submit to the legislature, within 20 days of the convening of the regular 2012 session, a plan to implement a 190-day school year (excluding professional development days and other non-instructional days) that includes 1,140 student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades at all public schools, except charter schools, for school years beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. Adds provision that if the implementation of student instructional hours results in varying student transportation schedules, the department must consider pick-up and drop-off times that optimize the department's transportation services while minimizing costs to the state. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/HB2486_CD1_.HTM
Title: H.B. 2486
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Amends the Pupil Transportation Act to require school bus drivers to meet the physical requirements specified in federal law for operators of commercial motor vehicles, with an exception for individuals with diabetes who were employed as bus drivers on the bill's effective date; extends the duration of a school bus driver's entry-level certificate until the completion of the next six-hour continuing education course, if the individual completed the entry-level course after June 30 of a given year. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/htm/2010-PA-0093.htm
Title: H.B. 5363
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to inspect the busses in operation at vocational-technical schools and to replace any school bus in service at a vocational-technical school that is 10 years or older; Requires the superintendent of the vocational-technical school system to report annually on such school bus replacement. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00076-R00SB-00379-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 379 - Sec. 5 and 6
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Establishes a grant in fiscal year 2012 to any municipality whose board of education makes a cooperative arrangement with at least one other board of education to provide school transportation that results in a savings in fiscal year 2011. The grant is in addition to the reimbursements for student transportation school districts receive under existing law; permits two or more boards of education to establish shared service agreements, in addition to cooperative arrangements that boards may enter under existing law. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/Pa/pdf/2010PA-00167-R00HB-05336-PA.pdf
Title: H.B. 5336
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Defines "educational institution" as any K-12 school, child care learning center, or college, university, technical school or other institution of higher learning. Bars any educational institution receiving state funds to enter into a contract for student transportation without first verifying that such carrier is certified by the Public Service Commission or any other similarly required certifying agency.
Also bars a motor common or contract carrier from entering into any contract to transport passengers without first providing all parties with a copy of the carrier's proof of legally required minimum insurance coverage and a number proving the carrier's current certification by the commission, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or any other similarly required certifying agency. Provides that any contract entered into without proof of insurance and/or the carrier's current certification number is void and unenforceable. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb392.pdf
Title: S.B. 392
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Clarifies that a certain type of school vehicle is not required to be equipped with seat belts and is not subject to specified regulations if it is used by specified schools, camps, day nurseries, or day care centers to transport children. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_260_sb0245E.pdf
Title: S.B. 245
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | This bill establishes an exception for the use of a handheld telephone utilizing push-to-talk technology by an individual operating a commercial motor vehicle to the prohibitions against using a handheld telephone while driving, as specified in SB 321. SB 321 prohibits a driver of a specified school vehicle from using a wireless telephone. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0934t.pdf
Title: H.B. 934
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | This bill prohibits the driver of a school vehicle that is carrying passengers and is in motion from using a handheld telephone. The prohibition also applies to the holder of a learner's instructional permit or provisional driver's license who is age 18 or older. Any other driver of a motor vehicle that is in motion may not use a handheld telephone; instead, the driver may only use his/her hands to initiate or terminate a wireless telephone call or to turn the handheld telephone on or off. These prohibitions do not apply to the emergency use of a handheld telephone. The prohibition also does not apply to the use of a handheld telephone as a text messaging device. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0321t.pdf
Title: S.B. 321
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Increases the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving and discharging children; authorizes the mounting of cameras on school buses; requests an educational information campaign on school bus safety. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4223%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=4223
Title: H.B. 4223
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Requires school bus supervisors to be certified to operate a bus or previously certified to operate a bus; modifies the test frequency for re- certifying a bus operators. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4512%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=4512
Title: H.B. 4512
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Provides that any person who possesses or consumes an alcoholic beverage while operating a school bus while transporting children is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB1353ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1353
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2009 | P-12 | Directs the department to amend rule 3301-83-23 of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) that took effect August 27, 2009, and that specifies the offenses that disqualify a person for employment as a school bus or school van driver and establishes rehabilitation standards for school bus and school van drivers. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the legislatively required amendments to OAC Rule 3301-83-23, any
person who is the subject of a criminal records check and who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense that disqualifies him/her for employment to operate a pupil transportation vehicle may not be hired or must be released from employment unless the person meets the rehabilitation standards prescribed by the rule. Pages 8-16 of 18: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_19_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 19 - School Bus/Van Drivers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| IL | Adopted 11/2009 | P-12 | Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in nature or echo recent changes in legislation):
Section 1.20: Revised to distinguish among the appropriate levels of sign-off on the corrective plan a district must submit depending on whether a school or the district has been placed on probation. Adds a provision allowing a district's or school's status to be changed to "nonrecognized" if, at any time that a corrective action plan is in effect, the state superintendent determines that the agreed-upon actions are not being implemented in accordance with the plan or the underlying areas of noncompliance are not being remedied.
Section 1.30: Updated to refer to state assessment accommodations now allowed for limited English proficient students, and now specifies when time extensions will be made available to those students (in response to P.A. 94-642, which authorized the state board to allow additional time "by rule"). Revises labels used to describe scores on the Illinois Alternate Assessment, and updates rule on review and verification of assessment information.
Section 1.100: Adds details so that staff of districts and other eligible applicants will have more specific guidance as to what is expected as part of the process for receiving waivers and modifications of requirements in the school code or administrative rules.
Section 1.240: Expanded to include a reference to gender identity among the prohibited bases for discrimination because it may otherwise not be clear that gender identity is encompassed in the definition of "sexual orientation".
Section 1.420: Adds provision specifying that each district's plan for recording student progress and/or awarding credit must include credit for courses completed by correspondence, online or from other external sources. Specifies that a district may count four clock-hours as a day of instruction only due to a condition beyond the district's control; specifies other requirements that must be met for the state superintendent to approve a district's request to use "multiple sessions" to fulfill school day requirements. Specifies that students in attendance for at least 150 but fewer than 240 minutes of school work may be counted for a half-day of attendance; students in attendance for fewer than 150 minutes of school work are not to be counted for purposes of calculating average daily attendance. Emphasizes the meaning of the portion of the rule on library media programs that distinguishes between the services that may be performed only by certified library information specialists and the other tasks that may be inherent in districts' operation of their programs.
Section 1.465 (on awarding of credit for foreign language study in an ethnic school program) and 1.480 (on correctional institution educational programs): Generally updated, including the insertion of current statutory citations.
Section 1.510: Main revision conveys state board's interpretation that districts may not pick and choose among students in the same situation once they elect to transport some students.
Section 1.737: Updated to complement new requirements for endorsements in safety and driver education that will take effect in 2012.
Pages 324-388 of 432: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume33_issue45.pdf
Title: 23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737
Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com
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| IL | To governor 11/2009 | P-12 | Directs the secretary of state to suspend a school bus driver permit for 3 years upon receiving notice from the employer that the holder failed to perform a post-trip inspection in accordance with applicable inspection policies. Requires that a school bus contain an operating two-way radio while the school bus driver is in possession of a school bus, and the device must be turned on and adjusted in a manner that would alert the school bus driver of an incoming communication request. Requires that the radio be tested prior to operation of the bus. Amends existing provision regarding mandatory post-trip inspections by district-employed and privately-contracted bus drivers. Requires that all school bus drivers, before leaving the bus at the end of each route, work shift or work day, walk to the rear of the bus and check the bus for children or other passengers in the bus. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0818.pdf
Title: S.B. 932
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | Community College
Postsec. | Amends existing law that authorizes the governing boards of specified community college districts to require that a transportation service fee be paid only by students and employees using those services. Extends the transportation fee authority to include any community college district. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_774_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 774
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Amends existing law which establishes toxic control measures to limit schoolbus idling and idling at schools and regulates drivers of schoolbuses, transit buses, school pupil activity buses, youth buses, general public paratransit vehicles and specified transit buses and commercial motor vehicles by requiring drivers of those vehicles to turn off the bus or vehicle engine upon stopping at a school, and subjects violations to civil penalties. Increases the minimum penalty and authorizes additional penalties. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_124_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 124
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes the governing board of any school district to establish and maintain a walking schoolbus, defined as a group of pupils walking to and from school with one or more supervising adults, for the purpose of ensuring the safe passage of pupils to and from school. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_315_bill_20090904_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_315_vt_20091012.html
Title: S.B. 315
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Repeals provision that provides that charter schools are eligible for a transportation allowance to cover the costs of purchasing or renting vehicles, contracting and paying for the transportation of pupils to and from school by a common carrier or a municipally owned transit system, or contracting with and paying responsible private parties for the transportation. Page 4 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_509_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 509 - Charter School Transportation
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Removes a provision in the School Code that allows a school district to transport not more than 15 students to and from an interscholastic athletic or other interscholastic activity in a van. Provides instead that students may be transported only in a school bus, a vehicle manufactured to transport not more than 10 persons, or a multi-function activity bus. Changes the definition of multifunction school-activity bus. Provides information that must be painted on the bus. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB3982lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 3982
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Adds contracts providing for the transportation of pupils with special needs or disabilities to the list of exceptions to the requirement that certain contracts be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Provides that these contracts must be advertised in the same manner as competitive bids and awarded by first considering the bidder or bidders most able to provide safety and comfort for the pupils with special needs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB2362lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 2362
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Amends provisions concerning the duty of the regional superintendent of schools to conduct courses of instruction for school bus drivers. Allows an increase in fees for providing such courses. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0269lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 269
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Amends text to appear on the rear of each school bus regarding reporting driver performance. Adds that the area code must precede the phone number of the owner of the school bus. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0353lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 353
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Provides that the Division of Motor Vehicles shall not issue or renew commercial drivers licenses with endorsements that qualify a person to drive a commercial passenger vehicle or school bus for anyone required to register under the sex offender and public protection registration programs; provides for the right to file a petition for a hearing on the matter.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1117v3.pdf
Title: H.B. 1117
Source: http://www.ncleg.net
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Amends provisions specifying which programs may receive funds realized from fines for violating special speed limit in school zone. Adds the Safe Routes to School Program and safety programs within the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program to these programs http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0075lv.pdf.
Title: S.B. 75
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Provides that when a school bus driver permit holder who is a service member is called to active duty, the employer must notify the secretary of state thereof. Provides the permit must be considered inactive until the holder renews the permit. Provides if the driver does not comply with specified requirements when called to active duty, the secretary of state may not characterize the permit as invalid. Defines "active duty" in the Illinois Vehicle Code. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB3787lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 3787
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Repeals Section 3319.0810, which allowed local boards to terminate student transportation staff positions for reasons of economy and efficiency if the board entered into a contract with an independent agent to provide transportation services. Page 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.0810
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Requires all school buses with diesel engines to be retrofitted with 2007 equivalent engines and 2007 fine particulate matter capture technology by January 1, 2017 or replaced by recently manufactured school buses by 2025. Chapter 631
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measures/hb2700.dir/hb2795.en.html
Title: H.B. 2795
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/
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| UT | Adopted 07/2009 | P-12 | Amends rule to provide for use of electronic and telecommunication devices on school buses. Adds provision requiring school bus drivers to perform an end of bus route inspection to ensure that all students are off the bus. Removes antiquated language. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090501/32510.htm
Title: R277-601
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| UT | Adopted 07/2009 | P-12 | Provides significant new and revised language throughout to reflect legislative audit findings and funding formula study committee recommendations regarding student transportation standards and procedures. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090515/32644.htm
Title: R277-600
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Requires the director of transportation to award federal grants for school-based workshops and community planning that will reduce traffic congestion, encourage walking and bicycling, and increase health and safety. Requires the director of transportation to streamline the grant application process. Requires the director of transportation to submit to the legislature a report of the status and progress of the Safe Routes to School program, no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the 2010 regular session.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/HB983_CD1_.HTM
Title: H.B. 983
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the use of automated camera or video recording systems to detect and prosecute individuals who pass stopped school buses; increases the penalty for striking and causing the death of a person when passing a stopped school bus. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H440v5.pdf
Title: H.B. 440
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Includes costs to retrofit or replace school buses for the purpose of reducing or eliminating diesel engine emissions in calculations of approved transportation costs for State School Fund distributions. Chapter 458
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb0600.dir/sb0610.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 610
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Allows school buses to be used up to 20 years of service, subject to annual safety inspections, by extending permissible, yearly waiver limit for their service life after initial 12 years of service from current three years to eight years.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB0092.pdf
Title: H.B. 92
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | 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 is not required to be secured in a child passenger safety seat system to ride in a passenger van designed to transport 15 or fewer passengers, including the driver, without securing the child individually by a safety belt, if the child is occupying a seat that is equipped with a safety belt; includes school vehicles. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00537F.pdf
Title: H.B. 537
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Adds new provision relating to transportation contracts for two or more private school pupils living in the same household.
Page 479 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Adds 121.91 (4) (L). Defines "local law enforcement agency". Provides additional funding if a local board and local law enforcement agency (1) jointly develop a school safety plan that specifies the purposes
of the additional revenue, (2) the school safety plan is consistent with the school safety plan required under s. 118.07 (4), and the school board submits the school safety plan to the department. Provides the excess revenue may be used to purchase school safety equipment, fund the compensation costs of security officers, or for school safety expenditures consistent with the school safety plan.
Provides additional funding to cover the salaries and benefits of school nurses and transportation. Adds new provision to incentivize energy efficiency measures and renewable energy products that result in the avoidance of, or reduction in, energy costs.
Pages 481-482 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Provides an additional penalty for violations of provisions that require traffic to stop for a school bus.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0481er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0481&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 481
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Relates to public school transportation support; provides that the only miles for which costs may be reimbursed shall be miles for transporting students; revises the calculation of reimbursement; relates to qualifying as a hardship bus run; provides that the Department of Education shall audit transportation operations of school districts of a certain size; provides for recommendations and reductions in reimbursement for unimplemented recommendations; relates to charter schools transportation reimbursement. Chapter 284
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0256.htm
Title: H.B. 256
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Provides for postcrash procedures by a police officer responding to an accident involving a school bus or head start bus.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0668.0.html&session=ls86
Title: H.B. 668
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Statement of intent: Legislative Bill 549 is the K-12 education technical bill for 2009. Substantive changes would include reducing the time a district would be allowed to contract for the instruction of all students from 3 years to 2 years, adding a requirement for districts to provide transportation allowances to parents of students who live more than 3 miles from the pick up point for transportation provided by the school, authorizing statewide regional networks for the provision of services to children with disabilities, and revising procedures for appointing surrogate parents for children with disabilities. A public hearing requirement would also be eliminated for itemized estimates for environmental hazards, accessibility barrier elimination, or modifications for life safety code violations, indoor air quality, or mold abatement and prevention. The measure would clarify or make minor revisions to provisions for exempt schools, student transportation, option enrollment, student records, school district reporting requirements, school board meetings, school finance, reorganization of educational service units, and veteran education. The sections regarding the Nebraska Equal Opportunity for Displaced Homemakers Act, the Diagnostic Resource Center in Cozad, and the obsolete distribution formula for core service funding would be outright repealed.
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB549.pdf
Title: L.B. 549
Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Ensures sufficient funding for K-12 public education for the 2009-2011 biennium; makes appropriations for class size reduction; authorizes school district bonds for purchase of school buses. Chapter 389
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB563_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 563
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Relates to special needs transportation; establishes a work group to study special needs transportation and funding; provides for pilot projects to demonstrate cost sharing opportunities, including opportunities among public paratransit and Medicaid nonemergency medical trips; requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to track additional expenditures for transporting homeless students; revises funding eligibility for organizations applying for paratransit or special needs grants. Chapter 515
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measures/hb2000.dir/hb2072.intro.html
Title: H.B. 2072
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Urges the use of biodiesel in diesel-powered public school buses to reduce diesel emissions.
Title: S.J.R. 14
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Creates the School Bus Safety Equipment Grant Pilot Program to assist school districts in equipping school buses with video recording devices or other electronic warning devices to reduce the incidents of drivers who illegally pass a school bus.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1207.pdf
Title: S.B. 500
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Enhances the safety of children by requiring central registry checks for all public school employees and bus drivers.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1173.pdf
Title: H.B. 1450
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent and Director of Transportation of each school district, in consultation with the appropriate law enforcement agency and prosecuting authority, to develop a school bus safety plan to reduce the occurrence of a motor vehicle passing a stopped school bus that is loading or unloading students and assist bus drivers in providing to law enforcement officers identifying characteristics of a motor vehicle and its operator who illegally pass buses to improve the likelihood of prosecution.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1206.pdf
Title: S.B. 499
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to physicians allowed to certify that an individual is physically able to drive a school bus; allows a physician who is licensed in the state or a bordering state to certify that an individual is physically able to drive a school bus. Public Law 82.
Title: H.B. 1200
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | 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 which passengers are transported to determine that no passengers remain on the bus; requires the owner of a school bus or special purpose bus to report each incident in which a passenger is left on the bus to the Department of Education; makes a violation a Class C infraction.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/
Title: S.B. 228
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Requires the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to establish and implement the Safe Routes to Schools program, a federally-funded program with the goal of increasing physical activity in school-aged children by increasing the number of children walking and bicycling to school. Designates the "Oklahoma Safe Routes to Schools Revolving Fund" in the state Treasury. The fund is to be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and is to consist of all monies received by the Department from any public or private sources authorized by law. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Department for the purpose of implementing the federal Safe Routes to School program.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB399_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 399
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Addresses alternative student transportation; establishes a safe routes to school program within the department of transportation; requires the department of transportation to administer a competitive grant program for the safe routes to school program; creates a statewide advisory committee within the department of transportation to create and refine grant criteria and review and recommend grant applications to the department for the grant program. Chapter 392
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1793-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1793
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| GA | Adopted 03/2009 | P-12 | Establishes guidelines for the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program School Bus Retrofit Grant Program and the Diesel Engine Retrofit Act State Diesel Grant Program. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/391/3/21/10.pdf
Title: GAC 391-3-21.10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Adds school corporations, colleges, and universities to the list of entities that are eligible to apply for a grant under the E85 fueling station grant program. Public Law 4.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1193.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1193
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Exempts school buses and school activity vehicles from certain size limitations; declares emergency, effective on passage. Chapter 31
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb2562.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2562
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Sets forth the vehicle equipment specifications for school buses, school activity buses and multifunction school activity buses. http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=37&pt=1&ch=14&sch=D&rl=Y
Title: 37 TAC 1.14.D.14.51 -.54
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Establishes definitions relating to school bus safety standards.
Title: 37 TAC 1.14.A.14.1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Adopts rules concerning school bus driver eligibility and application procedures. http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=37&pt=1&ch=14&sch=B&rl=Y
Title: 37 TAC 1.14.B.14.11 -.14
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Sets forth the requirements of the driver safety training program for drivers of school buses, school activity buses and multifunction school activity buses. http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=37&pt=1&ch=14&sch=C&rl=Y
Title: 37 TAC 1.14.C.14.31 -.36
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Sets forth the advertising display requirements for school buses (repeals and replaces earlier language). Establishes a traffic crash reporting requirement for school buses that are displaying exterior advertising. http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=37&pt=1&ch=14&sch=E&rl=Y
Title: 37 TAC 1.14.E.14.61 -.65
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 01/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to sufficient textbook requirements, county superintendent revenue limits, school district building maintenance funding, funding for school and community college districts, pupil retention block grants, charter school block grants, pupil oral health assessments, local agency program improvement under the No Child Left Behind program, the High Priority Schools Grant Program, funding for regional occupational centers and programs, school transportation funds, and local education agency budgets.
Title: A.B. 4A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MA | Signed into law 12/2008 | P-12 | Improves school campus air quality; restricts idling of school buses and personal motor vehicles on school grounds.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/185/st02/st02628.htm
Title: S.B. 2628
Source: http://www.mass.go
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| MA | Signed into law 12/2008 | P-12 | Relates to the licensing of school bus drivers; requires such drivers to be trained in a basic course in first aid including the administration of an epinephrine auto injector; adds the term sex offender to sections governing in licensure of such drivers.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht04pdf/ht04396.pdf
Title: H.B. 4396
Source: http://www.mass.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Provides a school or a school district would not be liable for transportation services provided by an operator of a charter-party carrier for which neither has contracted, arranged, or provided. Requires the review and, if necessary, revision of training and other requirements for drivers who operate charter-party carriers used for pupil transportation. Requires a vehicle to pass an annual inspection and authorizes a fee for the inspection. Requires operators to have certain documents in their possession. Chapter 649
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 830
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Allows board of education to provide transportation to school for a child living a lesser distance than two miles from school if the parent or guardian of the child is nonambulatory and unable to accompany the child to and from school. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S01543&sh=t
Title: S.B. 1543
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12 | Appropriates money from the general fund to the Public Education Department to provide supplemental funding to school districts for higher school bus fuel costs; provides that the distribution of funding shall be based on miles traveled for to-and- from transportation of public school students and that any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year shall revert to the general fund.
http://legis.state.nm.us:8080/lcsbillsearch/session.jsp?year=2008S&type=B&chamber=H&number=2
Title: H.B. 2A
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | 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.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2182lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2182
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Prohibits passing other motor vehicles in school zones during posted hours. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504101
Title: H.B. 1367
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Authorizes the State and its municipalities to install automated systems on school buses to detect and monitor school bus traffic violations; takes effect upon passage; relates to video monitoring systems; relates to vendors; provides that reimbursement shall be made from ticket proceeds from paid violations; requires warning signage.; requires inspections and a signed statement from a trained law enforcement officer; provides for evidence and driver or registered owner liability in prosecutions. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08118.htm
Title: S.B. 2909
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| CA | Rejected by voters 06/2008 | P-12 | 2008 Ballot., Proposition 10, Petition 1332 (07-0101, Amdt. 2S). Creates the Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act. Authorizes the issuance of a specified amount of bonds to provide cash payments to purchasers of certain high fuel economy and alternative fuel vehicles, incentives for research, development and production of renewable energy technology, incentives for research and development of alternative fuel vehicle technology, incentives for purchase of renewable energy technology, and grants to cities for related education.
Title: V. 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Prohibit school bus operators from using cell phones while driving. Provides exceptions for enumerated emergency situations. Provides that a violation of this prohibition is a misdemeanor, and establishes maximum penalties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495850
Title: H.B. 402
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Authorizes school bus warranty repair work to be performed by repair facilities, authorized by the manufacturer or distributor, that are not school bus dealers. Clarifies that manufacturers may authorize that warranty and other repair or maintenance services be performed at any location of a motor vehicle dealer that holds a franchise from any affiliate or subsidiary of the manufacturer. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503348
Title: H.B. 197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Requires school buses, whether transporting passengers or not, and motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire, to stop at railroad crossings and only proceed when safe to do so. Requires a school bus driver, after coming to a complete stop, to open the door of the bus prior to proceeding over the crossing. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503670
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Removes State Board of Education oversight over the design and operation of school buses.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+231/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.B. 231
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Declare the third week of October "School Bus Safety Week." http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb790.pdf
Title: H.B. 790
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Declares the third Monday of October "School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day." http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb791.pdf
Title: H.B. 791
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Relates to the installation of protective devices at railroad grade crossings. Requires that school districts annually provide the department of transportation with a list identifying each rail crossing that does not have active warning devices on an established bus route. Requires each district to use best efforts to minimize the number of school bus routes that cross rail crossings that do not have active warning devices. Directs the department to use the information about school bus routes as an important factor in selecting rail crossings to upgrade with active warning devices. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb426.pdf
Title: H.B. 426
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Relates to pupil transportation and type III school bus drivers; provides a holder of a class D driver's license, without a school bus endorsement, may operate a type III bus if the operator is an employee of the entity that owns, lease, or contracts for the school bus, employer has adopted and implemented annual training and certification and alcohol and drug testing, a background check has been conducted, submits to a physical examination and license is verified annually.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S2988.3.html&session=ls85
Title: S.B. 2988
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | 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 students walking to such school exist; The district is required to send positive findings to the commissioner of transportation; commissioner must reject such findings within 60 days or state will pay for transportation to school for such students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3080.pdf
Title: S.B. 3080
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Concerns school bus safety signals requirements; replaces current statutory equipment standards for a school bus with the current federal regulation.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A22AB294A072C406872573A700643FE1?open&file=1336_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1339
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | By September 30 of each year, requires the secretary of the transportation cabinet to report to the general assembly's interim committee on appropriations and revenue the following information for those fiscal court applications received by the transportation cabinet:
(a) The annual cost to transport an individual pupil by local school district
(b) The total annual cost to transport all pupils
(c) The number of nonpublic school pupils transported by district
(d) The amount of money needed to fund actual costs to transport the projected number of nonpublic pupils over the next biennium
(e) A history by year of participating counties requesting funding to transport nonpublic students, the funding requested by the counties, and the actual funding provided to the counties. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB655/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 655
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Requires school bus passengers between the age of four and seven to be restrained in accordance with one of the methods set forth in subdivision one or two of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic code (vehicle and traffic code accessible through this link: http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS).
Bill text: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S06421&sh=t
Title: S.B. 6421
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Modifies the Environmental Quality Code and the Motor Vehicles Code by amending provisions relating to school buses. Requires the state board of education to adopt idling reduction standards and implement an idling reduction program. Appropriates funds for a clean school bus purchase or retrofit program. http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/hbillenr/hb0146.pdf
Title: H.B. 146
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | 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 commercial vehicle of more than two axles. In other words, prohibits drivers under the age of 18 to drive a school bus.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1160ER
Title: H.B. 1160
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies or when the vehicle is lawfully parked and for the purposes of dispatching. Does not apply to two-way radio devices authorized by the owner of the school bus.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1218ER
Title: H.B. 1218
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies, or when the vehicle is lawfully parked and for the purposes of dispatching. Use of two-way radio devices authorized by the school bus owner, however, is permitted.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0234
Title: S.B. 136
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2008 | P-12 | Specified policies and requirements for transporting students to schools.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0001.pdf
Title: S.B. 730 (sec. 1321)
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes state and local entities to secure and expend federal funds appropriated under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act - A Legacy for Users for programs relating to highway safety improvements that can reduce the number of fatal and serious injury accidents. Requires the Department of Transportation to administer the Safe Routes to School construction program and to distribute any federal funds to be distributed under the competitive grant process. Chapter 673
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/ab_57_bill_20071014_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 57
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Specifies standards for biodiesel and biodiesel blends and for renewable diesel and renewable diesel blends. Requires notification of consumers by retailers of the fuel's biodiesel content. Authorizes school districts to use a biodiesel fuel blend to operate all of their diesel-powered schoolbuses if certain conditions are met. Authorizes the use of a biodiesel fuel blend to operate diesel-powered vehicles owned or leased by the State, by a city, county, or city and county, or by a mass transit district.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20070914_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_vt_20071014.html
Title: S.B. 70
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov
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| OR | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Prohibits use of school buses manufactured before April 1977 beginning August 1, 2008.
Title: OAR 581-053-0002
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Requires each school bus to display a readable sign indicating the telephone number of the owner of the school bus, and indicating that the number is to be called to report erratic driving by the school bus driver. Directs the owner of each school bus to establish procedures for accepting these calls and for taking complaints. Provides the procedures must include an internal investigation of the events that led to each complaint, and a report to the complaining party on the results of
the investigation and the action taken, if any.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB3624lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 3624
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | 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 every school bus and that no passenger is left behind or remains on the vehicle at the end of a route, a work shift, or the work day. Establishes requirements for the policy.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0166lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 166
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Exempts from an eavesdropping violation an electronic recording, motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio recording, made of the interior of a school bus while the school bus is being used in the transportation of students to and from school and school-sponsored activities. Provides that such recordings may only be used by school officials and law enforcement personnel for investigations, school disciplinary actions and hearings, proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and criminal prosecutions, related to incidents occurring in or around the school bus. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0665lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 665
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Requires public school buses or other vehicles for student transportation that are capable of operating on diesel fuel to be capable of operating on diesel fuel with a minimum biodiesel concentration of b-20.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/HTML/S1452v4.html
Title: S.B. 1452
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations requiring school districts with a significant number of children with asthma, and those other school districts deemed appropriate by the commissioner, to minimize the idling of school bus engines while parked or standing on school grounds, or in front of any school. Provides that these regulations must include a requirement that all school bus engines be turned off while waiting for passengers to load and unload on school grounds, and provides for exceptions as needed for heating, mechanical or emergency circumstances. Requires each district to annually provide their school personnel with notice of these provisions and the related regulations. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S05973&sh=t
Title: S.B. 5973
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Provides for reemployment of retired school bus drivers; provides for contributions and employer reporting requirements. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449533
Title: S.B. 60
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Requires every school bus to be equipped with a crossing control device by January 1, 2008. Requires the state to reimburse local school boards that have expended funds for this purpose. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449875
Title: H.B. 157
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Requires passenger safety restraint systems be installed and used on new school buses operated by public or private schools.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/HTML/S812v0.html
Title: S.B. 812
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | 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 school activity bus, or providing contracted transportation services for a public or private school in any vehicle.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H183v0.html
Title: H.B. 183
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Requires a commercial drivers license that has a school bus endorsement to expire three years after it is issued.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1546v0.html
Title: H.B. 1546
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Makes passing a stopped school bus and striking a person and causing serious bodily injury a felony.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/HTML/S924v0.html
Title: S.B. 924
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Establishes a pilot program to provide funds for local school administrative units to retrofit school buses in order to reduce diesel emissions from certain diesel school buses registered in counties located in areas designated as nonattainment or maintenance for ozone or particulate matter.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1912v5.html
Title: H.B. 1912
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Provides no person may operate a school for which there are no applicable federal school bus safety standards unless all occupants are restrained by an approved safety belt. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A03978&sh=t
Title: A.B. 3978
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Requires the Environmental Quality Commission to establish a goal to reduce excess lifetime risk of cancer due to exposure to diesel engine emissions to no more than one case per million individuals by 2017. In setting the goal, the commission is required to include a target to substantially reduce the risk to school children from diesel engine emissions produced by Oregon school buses by the end of 2013. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to track and report to the Legislative Assembly on the progress in meeting this goal.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2100.dir/hb2172.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2172
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Allows the use of school pupil transport vehicles for the transport of eight (8) or fewer pupils to and from school and school related services; this act would take effect on August 15, 2007.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law07/law07207.htm
Title: S.B. 556
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | 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/vwLegislation/HB+41/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.B. 41
Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us/
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| NY | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Enacts P.J.'s law; directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations requiring school bus drivers and school bus attendants on a bus transporting a child or children with a disability to complete training, twice a year, on the special needs of children with a disability.
Title: S.B. 3294
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Prohibits the use of school buses manufactured before April 1, 1977; provides that operation of a prohibited school bus is a Class B traffic violation, punishable by a maximum fine of $ 360.
Title: H.B. 2456
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Requires that school bus emergency brakes, commencing with model year 2010, be equipped with an interlock brake system that, once applied, may only be released when the brake pedal is depressed and the key is in the ignition.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law07/law07168.htm
Title: H.B. 5020
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Creates a sixteen member special legislative commission whose purpose it would be to study transportation for afterschool and childcare programs.
Title: H.B. 6313
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2007 | P-12 | Provides for the maximum school bus ride time, school bus driver certification training, provides that parents are responsible for the safety, conduct, and timely arrival of their children to, from, and at the school bus stop; and that the number of students on a school bus must not be greater than the seating capacity; relates to inspection of buses, hazardous traffic criteria, hazardous traffic funds, and unescorted students; relates to the replacement and biodiesel use of buses.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3161.htm
Title: H.B. 3161
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Prohibits persons who have committed offenses such as vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of an accident from operating a school bus for
10 years after said offense. Defines "multifunction school activity bus" and prohibits this type of bus from being painted National School Bus Glossy Yellow in order to differentiate between multifunction school activity buses and regular school buses so that schools know which of these buses are safe for certain situations. Requires school bus operators to wear seat belts if available and sets other safety requirements.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB03190F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3190
Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Vetoed 06/2007 | P-12 | Prohibits school buses with diesel engines from idling at schools or school events.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB03457F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3457
Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Requires a county or school district to allow a parent to designate a grandparent's residence or child-care facility for the purpose of accessing transportation to and from the child's school if the location is on an approved route.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB01713F.pdf
Title: S.B. 1713
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | 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/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/passed/S-013.HTM
Title: S.B. 13
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | 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 60 miles an hour.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1018.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1018
Source: www.in.gov/legislative
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes district to provide transportation to allow a student who attends a high-need English language learner program and who resides within the transportation attendance area of the program to continue in the program until the student completes the highest grade level offered by the program.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85
Title: H.F. 2245 [High Needs ESL]
Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Directs Department of Transportation to notify Department of Education of suspension, cancellation or revocation of driving privileges of person who holds school bus endorsement.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2200.dir/hb2266.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2266
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Requires school bus drivers to deposit student at student's destination and makes failure to do so Class C misdemeanor punishable by fine only of up to $ 100; requires Local Education Agencies to assure school bus drivers understand their duties and responsibilities with respect to management of unruly student bus riders.
Title: S.B. 51
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law (partial veto) 05/2007 | P-12 | Part of this bill requires the implementation of a new school bus replacement incentive program for vehicles with less emissions for the 2007 model year and provides funding therefor; requires all public agencies to satisfy their motor vehicle fuel usage from electricity or biofuel; authorizes contracting for biofuels or biofuel blends; authorizes the purchase of power at state expense for recharging state-owned electric vehicles; provides for the appointment of a biofuel promotion coordinator. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202007/1303-S2.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1303
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Clarifies uniquely difficult geographic circumstances under which a district may be reimbursed by the state board for transportation costs above the standard threshold. Session Law Chapter 352
http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1236.html
Title: S.B. 1236 (Section 10)
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Doubles speeding fines in school zones. Page 11 of 12: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/8.pdf
Title: S.B. 8
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Defines the term cellular telephone; prohibits the use of cellular telephones by a school bus driver; establishes the fine for using cellular telephone while driving a school bus. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/07RS/HB230/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Relates to requirements for drivers of school vehicles. Specifies that if a school vehicle for which a commercial driver's license is not required, but which is designed to seat ten to fifteen passengers, the individual must: (1) Hold a North Dakota driver's license; (2) Meet the physical and medical requirements established for commercial vehicle drivers; (3) Complete any annual training required by the superintendent of public instruction; and (4) Be at least twenty-one years of age, unless the board of a school district determines that an individual not meeting this requirement can safely and adequately perform the required duties. Deletes provision that required an annual health exam, although district boards may request that a health professional examine an individual.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HBDD0600.pdf
Title: H.B. 1334
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| NV | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | 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/AB66_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 66
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | The Office of Financial Management (OFM), in consultation with Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC), will contract for the development of two options for a student transportation funding methodology that reflects actual costs and builds incentives for an efficient use of resources, and provides school districts with a formula for predictable levels of
funding. In developing the two options, OFM and the contractor will consult with the OSPI, regional transportation coordinators, school business managers, school administrators, and classified staff. OFM will report to the education and fiscal committees of the Legislature with a detailed description of options and legislation that is required to implement options and any accompanying legislation to implement the funding methodology by December 1, 2008. The OFM report on the new funding formula is required to include an evaluation of the feasibility
of having some or the entire pupil transportation program supported by the transportation budget, including utilizing local transit agencies. Starting with the 2007-08 school year, school districts are required to account for "to and from" spending costs separately from other
pupil transportation spending.
Link to final bill report: http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate%20Final/5114-S2.FBR.pdf
Title: S.B. 5114
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Provides that local school boards may display decals relating to local school division bus safety hotlines on school buses; local school divisions must bear the cost of such decals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1920ER
Title: H.B. 1920
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Increases the maximum speed limit to 60 miles per hour for school buses traveling on interstates and highways where the speed limit is greater than 55 miles per hour. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1729ER
Title: H.B. 1729
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | 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 nonsequential system of red traffic warning lights, a warning sign with flashing lights, and a crossing control arm such that when the bus door is opened, the red warning lights, warning sign with flashing lights, and crossing control arm are automatically activated. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3084ER
Title: H.B. 3084
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Permits local school boards to enter into agreements with nonpublic schools in the school division to provide student transportation for a fee to and from the nonpublic schools. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2302ER
Title: H.B. 2302
Source: http://legis.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Modifies the statutory limitation on the length of school buses to not exceed forty-five feet, exclusive of front and rear bumpers. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb2781%20enr.htm
Title: H.B. 2781
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Requires local school boards to reimburse school personnel for mileage costs when they are required to use a personal motor vehicle in the course of their employment at a minimum rate that is at least the same for state employees who are reimbursed for mileage costs when using a personal motor vehicle in the course of their employment. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB100%20SUB2.htm
Title: S.B. 100
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Amends Education Code in the following ways:
1) Prescribes authorities of county school boards.
2) Expands purposes for which schools may expend funds.
3) Establishes certain vehicle and driver safety requirements for transporting students to a school-sponsored activity.
4) Expands the purposes for which county boards may lease school buses.
5) Requires county school boards to provide suitable educational facilities, equipment and services for special education students.
6) Requires county school boards to give preference to professional educators currently employed by the board for summer school employment.
7) Establishes service personnel classification title for licensed practical nurse.
8) Adds posting and notice requirements for filling service personnel positions.
9) Prohibits displacement of aides to create vacancy for licensed practical nurse.
10) Establishes parameters for the workday and beginning work station for certain service personnel.
11) Modifies process for determining certain service personnel hiring priority in cases of school merger or consolidation.
12) Modifies personal leave procedures and authorizes transfer of personal leave in certain circumstances for all full-time employees of a county school board .
13) Modifies employment benefits accrued by substitute service personnel employed by a county school board.
14) Requires county school boards to make certain training available to all regularly employed teachers' aides.
15) Prohibits an autism mentor or aide who works with autistic students from transferring to another position after the fifth day prior to the beginning of the instructional term under certain conditions.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb2189%20EnrSUB.htm
Title: H.B. 2189
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/
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| AK | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Amends rules to the Department of Education and Early Development.Adopts the national specifications and revisions into the Alaska MinimumStandards for School Buses, 2006 Revised Edition. ALASKA 3454
http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/AAC/Title04.htm
Title: 4 AAC 27
Source: http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Prescribes the means and conditions for a school bus driver to activate and deactive alternately flashing lights when the school bus is stopping, stopped or proceeding from a stop on a highway or private road for the purpose of receiving or discharging students. Prohibits a school bus driver from actuating the alternately flashing lights when operating on a public highway or private road and transporting passengers primarily other than school pupils. Specifies the conditions under which a school bus driver shall not stop a bus for the purpose of receiving or discharging students. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0320.pdf
Title: H.B. 5581
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Enacts the schoolchildren 's health act. Provisions relate to: (1) sealing arsenic-treated wood in playgrounds and testing the soil on school grounds for contamination; (2) reducing students' exposure to diesel emissions from school buses; (3) studying mold and mildew prevention; (4) establishing guidelines for Integrated Pest Management; (5) the use of pesticides; (6) parental and school staff notification of of pesticide use; and (7) encouraging local boards of education to remove mercury used as teaching aids.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H1502v0.html
Title: H.B. 1502
Source: http://www.ncleg.net/
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Prevents a person who is guilty of passing a stopped school bus from receiving a prayer for judgment under any circumstances.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H2880v4.html
Title: H.B. 2880
Source: http://www.ncleg.net/
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Directs each local board of education operating activity buses to adopt a policy for the proper use of buses for travel to athletic events during the regular season and playoffs and travel to other school-sponsored activities. Directs the departments of public instruction and transportation to develop a program for issuing a statewide permit to commercial motor coach companies seeking to contract with local school systems for the transportation of students, school personnel and other persons authorized by the school system for school-sponsored trips.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H1155v4.html
Title: H.B. 1155
Source: http://www.ncleg.net/
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Revises the mandated installation requirement of closed crankcase technology on regulated school buses to comply with the state's ultra low sulfur diesel fuel law for motor vehicles by requiring the owner of a regulated school bus to submit a cost estimate to the Department of Environmental Protection detailing the cost of any retrofit device to be installed on a bus as part of the closed crankcase technology and any cost associated with the installation of the closed crankcase technology prior to its purchase or installation. If the department determines
the estimated costs are unreasonable, based upon criteria including, but not limited to, prevailing market rates and acquisition by the state of comparable technology, the department shall enter into negotiations with the owner of the regulated school bus to resolve the discrepancy.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S2000/1796_R1.PDF
Title: S.B. 1796
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Requires that the state department of administration and the Rhode Island public transit authority develop a plan for the creation and implementation of a statewide system of transportation of students with special needs and for all students including those without special needs to and from school.
Title: H.B. 7841; S.B. 2489
Source: Rhode Island Legislature
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to plan, develop, create and implement a statewide system of transportation of students with special needs.
http://dirac.rilin.state.ri.us/BillStatus/WebClass1.ASP?WCI=Bills&WCE=BillEvent&WCU=S2489A
Title: S.B. 2489
Source: Rhode Island Legislature
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| WA | Rule Adoption 07/2006 | P-12 | Complies with legislation passed during the 2006 session. Transfers the authority to adopt rules governing the training and qualification of schoolbus drivers from the State Board of Education (SBE) to the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=180-20
Title: WAC 180-20-009, -021, -101 thru -103, -111, -112, - 135, -140, -145
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Relates to school transportation and finance; makes an appropriation; provides that in fiscal year 2006- 2007 and each fiscal year thereafter, the transportation revenue control limit shall not increase if the transportation revenue control limit is more that a specified percentage of the transportation support level.
Title: S.B. 1205
Source: Arizona Legislature
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Strikes subsection that requires drivers of school buses to present a certificate of physical fitness each year before being permitted to operate any vehicles transorting children to and from school. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 45
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Specifies that the department of education has authority to suspend bus drivers' authorization to drive a school bus. Requires the department to take adverse action against any person who, after notice and opportunity for hearing, is determined to have committed any of the following:
a. Use of nonprescription controlled substances or alcoholic beverages during working hours.
b. Operating a school bus while under the influence of nonprescription controlled substances or alcoholic beverages.
c. Fraud in the procurement or renewal of a school bus driver's authorization to operate a school bus.
d. The commission of or conviction for a public offense as defined by the Iowa criminal code, if the offense is relevant to and affects driving ability, or if the offense includes sexual involvement with a minor student with the intent to commit acts and practices.
Provides that such action may include a reprimand or warning of the person or the suspension or revocation of the person's authorization to operate a school bus. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 51
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | 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 environmental quality to award grants to school districts to purchase new compressed natural gas powered school buses and to purchase new school buses with diesel particulate filters or retrofit used school buses with diesel particulate filters.
Title: H.B. 2591
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 04/2006 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the Early Intervention Program for students in grades K-5 http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.17.pdf, hearing processes http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-7-.18.pdf and student transportation funding surveys http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-3-.10.pdf.
Title: GAC 160-4-2-.17; -7-.18; -5-3-.10
Source: public.doe.k12.ga.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Adds to existing law to prohibit access to school children by any person currently registered or required to register under the Idaho Sex Offender Registration Act; provides exceptions; provides a penalty. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0713.html
Title: H.B. 713
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Creates new sections related to school crossing guards. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/344.pdf
Title: S.B. 344
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | 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://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/2513.pdf
Title: H.B. 2513
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Vetoed 04/2006 | P-12 | Extends through fiscal year 2010 the authorization for Baltimore City to use local highway user revenues for students costs of discounted stated Transit Administration fares for eligible public school students in Baltimore City.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0177t.pdf
Title: H.B. 177
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| MI | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Modifies the pupil transportation act; regulates the equipment, maintenance, operation and use of school buses; prescribes the qualifications of school bus drivers; prescribes the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental agencies; creates an advisory committee and prescribes its powers and duties.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0108.pdf
Title: S.B. 932
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| MI | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Allows an intermediate school district that purchased a special education transportation service from a constituent district to continue to report those transportation costs to the state for reimbursement, and requires the Department of Education to remove that amount from the costs reported by the constituent district. Enables districts to contract with lower cost transportation suppliers without being penalized through lack of reimbursement from the state.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0090.pdf
Title: S.B. 866
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| MI | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Regulates the equipment, maintenance, operation and use of school buses and pupil transportation vehicles. Prescribes: (1) the qualifications of school bus and pupil transportation vehicle drivers and (2) the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental agencies. Creates an advisory committee and prescribe its powers and duties.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0107.pdf
Title: H.B. 5494
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | 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 and the parents and students are notified of the recording.
http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2006/HB1362.html
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: http://gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Provides that any local government or combination of governments within planning district 16 may enter into cooperative agreements with a local school division for the use of school vehicles for public transportation purposes during non-school hours. Such agreements may utilize public or private funds for addressing the costs of the program. An enactment clause provides that if no such agreements are entered into by July 1, 2010, the provisions of the act will expire on July 1, 2010.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0821
Title: H.B. 1582
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Provides that a special purpose bus may be used to transport homeless students.
Creates new chapter on transportation of homeless students. Defines "transitional school corporation" as a school corporation (district) in which a homeless student temporarily stays. Provides that if a homeless student temporarily stays in the homeless student's original school corporation but outside the attendance area for the school of origin, the original school corporation must provide transportation for the homeless student from the place where the homeless student is temporarily staying to the school of origin. Provides that if:
(1) a homeless student's school of origin is located in a school corporation in which the homeless student is not temporarily staying; and
(2) the homeless student does not elect to attend a school located in the school corporation in which the homeless student is temporarily staying;
the original school corporation and the transitional school corporation must enter into an agreement on responsibility for and apportionment of costs of transporting the homeless student to the school of origin. If the original school corporation and the transitional school corporation are unable to reach an agreement, provides that responsibility for and cost of transporting the homeless student to the school of origin must be shared equally by both school corporations. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1006.1.html
Title: H.B. 1006 - Section 1 and 2
Source: www.in.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes a local school district to reimburse temporary or substitute school bus drivers for the costs required for a commercial driver's license; authorizes special state schools administered by the state Board of Education to reimburse school bus drivers for such cost.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0321SG.htm
Title: H.B. 321
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | 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 with posted speed limits greater than 55 mph.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0416
Title: H.B. 650
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WI | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Relates to allowing school boards to charge a fee for transporting certain pupils not required to be transported to a public or private school; allows a school board to charge a fee for transportation and to waive such fee or any portion for a parent or guardian unable to pay.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05Act223.pdf
Title: S.B. 324
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| DE | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | 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.
Title: H.B. 338
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | 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 Transportation Block Grant to replace existing system of funding public school transportation in the state. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1101-1150/ab_1110_bill_20050907_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 1110
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | An act to amend Section 42291 of the Education Code. Establishes a priority for allocations to small school districts to replace or recondition schoolbuses owned by a school district or county office of education that were manufactured prior to 1987. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1101-1150/ab_1107_bill_20050907_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 1107
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | 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. - School Transportation Block Grant. This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion block grant funds to a school district to cover costs for special education transportation and costs associated with rural and isolated locations.
Title: H.B. 1110
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | In a provision allowing a school board to provide free transportation when conditions are such that walking constitutes a serious safety hazard, provides that the school board shall annually review the conditions and determine (rather than certify to the State Superintendent of Education) whether or not the hazardous conditions remain unchanged. Effective July 1, 2005.
Title: H.B. 3680
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Provides that, upon enactment of a federal transportation bill with a dedicated fund available to states for safe routes for schools, the Department of Transportation shall, in cooperation with the State Board of Education and the Department of State Police, establish and administer a Safe Routes to School Construction Program for the construction of bicycle and pedestrian safety and traffic-calming projects, with competitive construction grants being made available to local governmental agencies. Proposals must be rated on the potential for reducing child injuries and fatalities, encouraging increased walking and bicycling among students, and other factors. Requires the department of transportation to study the effectiveness of the program and report to the general assembly by December 31, 2006 on the results of the study. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/94/PDF/094-0493.pdf
Title: H.B. 744
Source:
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | For purposes of computing special education base revenue, the cost of providing transportation for children with disabilities includes (A) the additional cost of transporting a homeless student from a temporary nonshelter home in another district to the school of origin, or a formerly homeless student from a permanent home in another district to the school of origin but only through the end of the academic year; and (B) depreciation on district-owned school buses purchased after July 1, 2005, and used primarily for transportation of pupils with disabilities, calculated according to paragraph (a), clauses (ii) and (iii). Depreciation costs included in the disabled transportation category must be excluded in calculating the actual expenditure per pupil transported in the regular and excess transportation categories.
Notwithstanding paragraph (e), if the pupil is homeless and placed in a public or private homeless shelter, then the district that enrolls the pupil under section 127A.47, subdivision 2, shall provide the transportation, unless the district that enrolls the pupil and the district in which the pupil is temporarily placed agree that the district in which the pupil is temporarily placed shall provide transportation.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0141.1&session_year=2005&session_number=1
Title: H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Requires the Nevada Association of School Boards to study the feasibility and necessity of safety restraints for use by pupils on school buses.
http://leg.state.nv.us/73rd/bills/AB/AB411_EN.pdf
Title: H.B. 411
Source: StateNet
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| TX | SENT TO THE GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12 | From fiscal note: Establishes a clean school bus program within the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) program operated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Provides for up to 4 percent of the 87.5 percent of TERP Account No. 5071 funds currently used for diesel emissions reduction incentive grants to be used for grants for the clean school bus program. The bill provides that money be allocated to the clean school bus program only if the money is available after being used to achieve emissions reductions objectives in the state implementation plan (SIP) for air quality or if revenues to the TERP Accoutn No. 5071 are received in excess of the Comptroller's Biennial Revenue Estimate. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=03469&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 3469
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 132. 05/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT relating to public schools; requiring local and regional governmental entities to conduct a study of safe walking routes for pupils in a certain area near schools.
http://leg.state.nv.us/73rd/Reports/history.cfm?ID=1755
Title: H.B. 231
Source: StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | 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 address a new type of vehicle, the multifunction school activity bus. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT029.HTM
Title: S.B. 81
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Revises the state bidding and purchasing process for school buses. Requires SPI to solicit competitive price quotes for base buses and optional features and to publish a list of accepted quotes. Permits school districts to buy directly from any dealer on the list and requires SPI to reimburse school districts and ESD's for buses purchased through either a lowest-bid competitive process or through the competitive price
quote process established by SPI, using reimbursement rates established for base buses.
Title: H.B. 1485
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires school bus drivers to report certain violations of the traffic laws to the superintendent of the school district and to require the superintendent to provide the report to a local law enforcement authority. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1103.pdf
Title: S.B. 1103
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | An act to ensure that school districts are using safe buses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb465.pdf
Title: S.B. 465
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Enacts "Isaac's law." States that a person commits negligent homicide if he or she negligently causes the death of another person while passing a stopped school bus. Increases minimum and maximum fines, minimum community service period and period during which an offender's driver's license may be suspended. States that if a school bus route includes bus stops on a multiple lane highway, the route must be designed to ensure that the bus operator always loads and unloads passengers in a manner that does not require a student to cross the highway. Requires a student being loaded or unloaded at a bus stop on a multiple lane highway to always be loaded and unloaded in a manner that does not require the student to cross the highway.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb467.pdf
Title: S.B. 467
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Provides for a school bus endorsement on a driver's license. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0402.html
Title: H.B. 402
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT ALLOWING A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO EXTEND A BUS ROUTE ACROSS ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO STUDENTS WITHIN ITS OWN DISTRICT; AMENDING SECTION 20-10-126, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
Title: H.B. 652
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Revises the duties and responsibilities of the division of public school academic facilities and transportation and creates the commission on public school academic facilities and transportation.
Provides that the enumerated duties of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation are to: ... "(5) Develop and implement an ongoing uniform process for collecting, inventorying, and updating information on the state of condition of all public school academic facilities in the state; (6) Develop a facility cost index that provides a methodology for comparing the cost of repairing the condition of a public school academic facility to the cost of replacing the public school academic facility with a facility containing the same amount of square footage; (7) Conduct unannounced random on-site inspections of public school academic facilities; (8) Develop minimum standards for accessibility to public school academic facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities; (9) Develop guidelines for competitive bidding, competitive negotiation, and other methods of procurement for public school academic facilities projects; (10) Develop incentive programs to reward school districts for innovative, effective, and efficient use of local and state resources with regard to public school academic facilities;" and "(13) Report by October 1 of each year to the Governor, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee on the state of condition of education facilities statewide" addressing specified features of school facilities; "(14) Report by October 1 of each even-numbered year to the Governor, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee on the state academic facilities master plan; and (15) Maintain a public access website dedicated to public school academic facilities."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB590.pdf
Title: S.B. 590
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to school transportation to remove a requirement that persons operating school buses have a driver's permit issued by the board of trustees. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1002.html
Title: S.B. 1002
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Establishes a school bus endorsement on a driver's license. Requires the successful applicant to pass appropriate knowledge and skills tests. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0054.html
Title: H.B. 54
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Establishes a new school bus endorsement for commercial driver's licenses; sets forth qualifications; exempts current license holders with satisfactory driving records from taking the school bus endorsement skills test until October 1, 2005. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB133.htm
Title: H.B. 133
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to toll roads; makes school district vehicles being operated in an official capacity eligible for a nonpaying toll-road identification card. Bill summary, history and text: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB115.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB115/FN.doc
Title: S.B. 115
Source: StateNet
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| MO | Issued 03/2005 | P-12 | The task force is required to evaluate and make initial recommendations on the following topics: (1) developing strategies for improving school bus safety, including, but not limited to, programs or laws that have proven effective to reduce the incidents of school transportation-related accidents; (2) analyzing current state and federal laws and programs governing school bus safety and recommending any changes that would enhance the effectiveness of these laws or programs; (3) reviewing whether requiring seat belts in school buses would prove effective in reducing fatalities and injuries in school transportation-related accidents; (4) recommending specific school bus safety legislation for possible consideration by the Missouri General Assembly; and (5) recommending best practices or policies that could be implemented by state or local governments that would enhance school bus safety. The task force is required to prepare a final report and submit it to the governor by December 31, 2005. Task force expires on December 31, 2005
http://www.gov.mo.gov/eo/2005/eo05_014.htm
Title: EXECUTIVE ORDER 05-14
Source: http://www.gov.mo.gov
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| NJ | To governor 03/2005 | P-12 | Requires certain public entities to competitively bid in order to provide pupil transportation services to a local school district.
Title: S.B. 1298
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Increases the amount to be paid in each year of a new contract extension for the transportation of school children beyond that which is allowed under current law.
http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A02928&sh=t
Title: A.B. 2928
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Defines and prohibits the unauthorized entry of school buses by persons over age 18. Provides exceptions for law enforcement officers, students, school employees and volunteers. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1196.pdf
Title: H.B. 1196
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| NH | Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | Sets forth the procedures for the certification, instruction and qualification files of all school bus drivers as well as the maintenance, inspection and design of all school busses. NEW HAMPSHIRE REG 5927 (SN)
Title: Saf-C 1300
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 11/2004 | P-12 | Submits a grant regarding the Georgia Adopt-A-School Bus Pilot Project and the Clean School Bus USA Grant.
Title: GAC 391-3-21-.10
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Total Veto Stands. 11/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for maximum speed limits for vehicles of specified weights and school buses inside and outside urban areas except where otherwise authorized.
Title: S.B. 2374
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Contains the text of a Governor amendment of Section 30 of the House bill numbered 5076 which relates to state reimbursement for school transportation for certain persons admitted to a day school in another municipality. Does not provide transportation of a person who has completed the twelfth grade or the equivalent. Provides for persons placed by the Department of Social Services or the trustees of training schools.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht05083.htm
Title: H.B. 5083
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which requires applicants for an original or renewal certificate to drive a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor vehicle to submit a physician's report. Allows, as an alternative, a report of a medical examination given by a licensed physician's assistant, advanced practice nurse or a doctors of chiropractic. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1801-1850/ab_1812_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1812_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1812
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Makes it an infraction to drive a schoolbus or a transit vehicle while using a wireless telephone. Provides that this prohibition does not
apply to a driver who is using the wireless telephone for work-related purposes, or for emergency purposes, including, but not limited to, an emergency call to a law enforcement agency, health care provider, fire department, or other emergency service agency or entity. Specifies that a violation of this new offense does not constitute a serious traffic violation for purposes of the commercial motor vehicle safety program.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2751-2800/ab_2785_bill_20040914_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 2785
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to examine home-to-school transportation funding formulas and determine how current formulas should be modified to allow school districts and county offices of education to initiate new transportation programs and receive state funding on a equitable basis. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1253_bill_20040828_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1253_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1253
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, home-to-school transportation programs to receive a state funding increase in lieu of an inflation or cost-of-living increase. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2462_bill_20040824_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2462_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2462
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Codifies regulations adopted by the State Air Resources Board that establish toxic control measures to limit schoolbus idling and idling at schools. Makes any violation subject to civil and administrative penalties and specifies the maximum civil penalty and that specified violations would also be subject to criminal penalties. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2601-2650/ab_2644_bill_20040818_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2644_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2644
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires person operating a schoolbus to possess a valid commercial driver's license with a passenger endorsement and be
issued a schoolbus driver's certificate. (see SEC. 4 and 5) http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3049_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3049
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| DE | Rule Adoption 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulation by adding a new section that includes the responsibilities of non-public, non- profit schools for the administration of their transportation systems under the rules and regulations of the Department of Education. Amends other regulation in order to change the statement about when the bus contractors are paid from 'at the end of the month' to 'in the middle of the month' due to the fact that schools are starting earlier in the fall.
Title: 14 DAC, Section 1105, 1.0 - 22.7
Source: StateNet
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| MO | Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2004 | P-12 | Adds rules regarding the inspection of frames on school buses. Specifies out-of-service criteria in buses in need of repair. MISSOURI REG 15080 (SN)
Title: 11 CSR 50-2.320
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that the transportation of pupils by a school district in child safety zones shall be considered regular aidable transportation; eliminates expiration of and makes permanent provisions of the education law providing for the transportation of pupils in child safety zones. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S04772&sh=t
Title: S.B. 4772
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Relates to establishing the safe routes to school program by the Department of Transportation; provides that money provided by the federal government pursuant to section 152 of title 23 of the United States code be given to localities, through the state Department of Transportation, for stated purposes related to safe routes to schools; provides for crosswalks, bicycle lanes, sidewalks and traffic calming measures.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=a10057
Title: A.B. 10057
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | Community College
Postsec. | Adds to the list of programs to be funded with the West Central Transit District. Provides for routes, vehicle purchase and Community College Coordination projects. Provides for discounted bus passes. Increases mobility for low income students in certain coordination projects through access to educational, service and job training facilities. Provides for two demonstration projects for the Chicago Transit Authority. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-1004
Title: H.B. 2587
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Prohibits school bus drivers from talking on cell phones while operating school buses while the vehicle is in motion and transporting one or more children; provides that cell phone communications can be made to and from a central dispatch, school transportation department or its equivalent when the bus is not equipped with a functioning two-way radio; the penalty is a $50 to $100 fine for 1st offense with a $100 to $200 fine and a 6 month suspension of school bus driving privileges for subsequent offenses. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/SB+174/$file/0361420141.doc/?openelement
Title: S.B. 174
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Pupil Transportation Act to revise the number and color of signal lights on school buses; requires compliance with federal and state safety standards.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0231.pdf
Title: H.B. 5969
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules relating to school finance and transportation. MONTANA REG 4551 (SN)
Title: 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)
Source: WestLaw
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding the specifications governing school bus design. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20175%20school%20bus%20specs.pdf
Title: ADE 175
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| CO | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the creation of A Safe Routes to School Program; directs the Department of Transportation to distribute federal funds to local governments to include projects that improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists in school areas.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/593025B536404D0287256DE100697A5C?Open&file=1309_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1309
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies that school bus drivers can use a radio or telephonic communication device to make or receive calls for assistance. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/
Title: H.B. 379
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides relative to the use of visual stop indicator signals on school buses; includes requirements regarding when a school bus, which is not receiving or discharging passengers, meets or is following another school bus that has such signals activated. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LRT5.PDF
Title: H.B. 384
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to elementary and secondary schools, so as to provide that the offense of disrupting the operation of a public school applies to disruption of public school buses and established public school bus stops. Requires school buses to meet safety specifications. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/hb1179.htm
Title: H.B. 1179
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| MO | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows for the adoption of emergency preparedness plans for the use during natural disasters or other community emergencies by school districts.
1. The board of education of each school district in this state is authorized to adopt an emergency preparedness plan to address the use of school resources, including school facilities, commodity foods, school buses, and equipment if a natural disaster or other community emergency occurs.
2. The emergency preparedness plan may authorize the superintendent or other designated school officials to approve use of school resources to provide relief to the community if an emergency occurs.
3. Food assistance may be provided using commodities distributed by the United States Department of Agriculture consistent with the standards for emergency congregate feeding under such program.
4. The use of school resources under this section shall be subject to review by the board of education within thirty days of authorization or as soon as reasonably possible.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/biltxt/truly/HB1070T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1070
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Creates a special joint committee to study the need to require the use of seatbelts in all vehicles used to transport school children in Tennessee. This special joint committee, consisting of three Representatives and three Senators, shall report its findings and recommendations to the 104th General Assembly no later than February 28, 2005, at which time the committee shall cease to exist. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HJR0953.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 953
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Adds to and amends existing law relating to the public charter schools to provide transportation reimbursement for public virtual schools; clarifies computation of support units for charter schools formed by conversion of an existing traditional public school; provides funding for public virtual schools; provides proper terminology. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1443.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1443
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends KRS 156.153 to require that school bus standards and specifications be set by the Kentucky Department of Education rather than by the Kentucky Board of Education; deletes obsolete language; amends KRS 189.540 to conform. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB124/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 124
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | 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 School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund; relates to drivers illegally failing to stop for school vehicles.
Title: H.B. 97
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes specified school vehicles to be operated for a specified amount of time; providing that school vehicles operating under a certain exception must be maintained under a certain preventive maintenance plan.
Title: H.B. 356
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the State Board of Education; authorizes compensation for certain school bus drivers for expenses incurred when acquiring an initial or renewal of a commercial license to drive a school bus.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1177SG.htm
Title: H.B. 1177
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law to provide for the State Board of Education's power and duty to authorize the supervisor of school transportation to conduct certain reviews and audits; sets priority for the selection of districts for reviews and audits; provides for the board's power and duty to authorize the supervisor to provide lists of required corrective actions to school districts. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1331.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1331
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Adds to and amends existing law to establish the Idaho School Transportation Safety Awareness license plate program; and to create the Pupil Transportation Support Program Fund with funds continuously appropriated to the state Department of Education to be used for educational programs promoting school transportation safety and awareness. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1311.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1311
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to pupil transportation to provide that the current pupil transportation model contract developed by the State Department of Education shall be used; allows for addenda to meet local requirements; requires the submission of contracts prior to signing for review and approval; requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to respond within a stated time period by notifying school districts of contract approval. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1344.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1344
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Allows a school corporation to use special purpose buses to provide regular transportation of school children from their residences to school and from one school to another school under specified situations. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1253.1.html
Title: H.B. 1253
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Allows reimbursement for allowable direct costs of transporting pupils for regular, vocational and special education. Relates to reimbursement for expenditures made to Regional Transportation, a mass transit district or an urban transportation district under an intergovernmental agreement. Includes expenditures the district has made to the public transit carrier. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=763&GAID=3&LegID=1184
Title: H.B. 763
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| SD | Adopted, On November 2004 Ballot 02/2004 | P-12 | Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election amendments to Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota to authorize the provision of certain services to all children of school age. The Constitution allows the Legislature to authorize the loan of nonsectarian textbooks to children of school age, including those attending sectarian schools. This amendment would also allow the Legislature to authorize participation in food and transportation services for children of school age, including those attending sectarian schools.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2004/bills/HJR1003enr.pdf
Title: HJR 1003/Constitutional Amendment B
Source: South Dakota State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 12/2003 | P-12 | 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 permit issued before a specified date. Relates to charter bus student transportation to or from interscholastic athletic or interscholastic or school sponsored activities. Requires a fingerprint check and a drug test. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=150&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=1634&SessionID=3
Title: S.B. 150
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| ND | Rule Adoption 12/2003 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding minimum standards required. Addresses all public school buses operated in North Dakota must meet the minimum body and chassis standards established or referenced in this chapter. NORTH DAKOTA REG 3678 (SN)
Title: 67-12-01-01
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2003 | P-12 | Prohibits smoking on school buses, even if students are not present; clarifies that the prohibition on smoking or carrying lighted tobacco on a bus or other public conveyance applies to school buses or other vehicle owned or contracted for by a public or nonpublic school, college, university or professional training school that are used to transport students to and from school and school related activities.
Title: A.B. 3168
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 11/2003 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding instructional extension, a state-funded instructional program beyond the regular school day to address the academic needs of low-performing students. Allows local school systems to spend up to 15 percent of the designated funds on transportation costs incurred for transporting students who are attending the additional classes. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.14.pdf
Title: GAC 160-4-2-.14
Source: Georgia State Department of Education Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Makes legislative finding that 15-passenger vans are unsafe; declares the intent of the Legislature that all school districts, private schools, community colleges, and state universities should require such vans owned by these entities only be driven by a person with a commercial driver's license. Requires that those districts and agencies that already own such van to limit their operation to persons holding a class B driver. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_626_bill_20030929_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 626
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Amends existing law to reduce the annual mileage requirement for each county unified school district to be eligible for an additional annual apportionment for home-to-school transportation costs. Restricts eligibility for the additional annual apportionment to such school districts that have received additional annual apportionments in the 2000-01 and 2001-02 fiscal years. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1051-1100/ab_1097_bill_20030925_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1097
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| GA | Adopted 08/2003 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding student transportation surveys and standard cost development. Determines bus needs for allotment purposes, ascertains standard costs for allotment purposes, and uses allotments for student transportation. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-3-.11.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-3-.10; GAC 160-5-3-.11
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the School Code. Provides for chartered bus drivers under specified conditions. Provides that school boards have the power to enter into contracts for school bus services. Provides for fingerprint, drug tests and criminal background checks. Permits contracts with out-of-state companies. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=2840&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=5403&SessionID=3
Title: H.B. 2840
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Amends the education law relating to the qualifications of school bus drivers, monitors and attendants, in relation to the effective date of such act.
Title: S.B. 5582
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Applies the safety regulations of the commissioner of education presently applicable to public school bus drivers to private school bus drivers; requires that the chief administrator of a private school shall approve every school bus driver to ensure that each such driver hired has fulfilled safety instruction requirements.
Title: S.B. 392
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Provides that a driver must stop his vehicle before meeting or overtaking, from either direction, a school bus stopped at any location for the purpose of receiving or discharging pupils and shall not proceed until the bus has resumed motion or the driver has signaled to proceed. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=SB&DocNum=311
Title: S.B. 311
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Requires school bus attendants to receive training relating to the special needs of pupils with a handicapping condition; provides that in addition, school bus attendants shall be required to pass a physical performance test.
Title: S.B. 5620
Source: StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Relates to school transportation; relates to the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of public education. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/pdf/23/Bills/SB0202B.PDF
Title: S.B. 202
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Relates to bus transportation; requires driving records of nonpublic sector bus drivers to be checked for suspended or revoked licenses; provides that private school students may ride on public school buses and public school students may ride on private school buses, subject to specified conditions; provides for safety belts or other restraints on school buses purchased after a certain date.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0614&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25200614%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 614
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Adds a charge of immorality as a cause for dismissal of a teacher, bus driver, or permanent employee; defines immorality as conviction of a felony offense against the public morals.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB778&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 778
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Requires a restriction which limits a person to operating only a school bus; provides that such restriction shall apply to a person who has taken a skills test in a school bus and who has taken a skills test in a school bus and who has not previously held a commercial driver's license. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=SB141&doctype=BT
Title: S.B. 141
Source: StateNet
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2003 | P-12 | Removes the contract requirement for substitute and part-time school bus drivers.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.1/HJournal/02200/02251.html and Section 51: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Adds that school bus driver must be immediately suspended from duties, pending termination hearing by district board or authorities of nonpublic school, if a change in circumstances indicates the driver is no longer physically or mentally competent. Specifies what constitutes a change in circumstances for an insulin-dependent diabetic. Adds that an insulin-dependent diabetic may drive school bus if doctor provides a signed statement that the results of an annual physical examination show the individual is physically capable of performing the required functions despite insulin dependency. Specifies under what circumstances an insulin-dependent diabetic may be allowed to operate or barred from operating a school bus. Requires district or authorities of nonpublic school employing insulin-dependent diabetic as a school bus driver to monitor the diabetic for compliance with enumerated requirements. See Sections 58-59: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Allows a governing body in an executive session to receive information about misconduct and discuss the status of a school bus driver, who is an independent contractor, or a physician, before the governing body makes a determination; makes provisions regarding public meetings; defines confidential records as regarding personnel information and security from terrorist attacks. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=169
Title: S.B. 169
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Exempts from school bus inspection standards vehicles vehicles designed to carry 11 or more people, including the driver, driver, that meet the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards applicable to school buses, Medicaid-enrolled transportation providers who perform transportation services described in the MaineCare Benefits Manual and transit districts or corporations that provide public transportation on prescribed routes at prescribed times.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billdocs/LD101801.doc
Title: H.P. 739 (LD 1018)
Source: StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Amends the Uniform Commercial Drivers' Licensing Act. Creates new section allowing the driving skills test for a school bus endorsement to be waived until September 30, 2005 if the applicant is currently licensed, has experience driving a school bus, has a good driving record and meets other specified criteria. Creates new section forbidding driver to enter into a diversion agreement instead of criminal proceedings preventing a driver's conviction, except a parking violation, in any type of motor vehicle from appearing on the driver's record, regardless of whether or not the offense was committed in the state in which the driver is licensed. Defines a school bus as a commercial motor vehicle, not including a bus used as a common carrier. Defines as a "serious traffic violation" the driving of a commercial motor vehicle in violation of an out-of-service order. Creates a commercial drivers' license endorsement authorizing holder to drive school buses. Modifies and adds to the circumstances disqualifying a person from driving a commercial motor vehicle for specified periods of
time http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2220.pdf
Title: H.B. 2220
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Requires school bus drivers to open the service door and driver's window and listen for approaching trains upon approaching railroad crossings. Also requires school bus drivers, when approaching any highway intersection, to bring the vehicle to a complete stop and not proceed until the driver has determined that it is safe to proceed. increases minimum/maximum range of penalties for failure to comply from $25-$100 to $100-$250. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2587SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2587
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Increases the stopping distance for school buses at railroad crossings to a range of fifteen to fifty feet from the nearest track.
Title: S.B. 132
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Strengthens screening procedures for school bus drivers; provides for a driver's record check for any alcohol and drug related motor vehicle violations.
Title: S.B. 795
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | 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 driver is a misdemeanor; requires that each school bus be posted with entrance signs stating that unauthorized entry of a school bus is a criminal offense.
Title: H.B. 74
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Provides that Board of Education regulations addressing school buses shall include provisions for the display of decals depicting the flag of the United States on the sides and rear of school buses.
Title: S.B. 987
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Prohibits a person from using a cellular telephone while operating a school bus. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB1042.pdf
Title: H.B. 1042
Source: State legislative web site
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| MT | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Allows vehicles to pass school buses that are stopped to receive or discharge children in designated school bus turnouts; specifies the requirements necessary to designate a school bus turnout.
Title: H.B. 112
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | 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 contractor is also on board the bus; provides an exception when the bus driver leaves the bus to assist in boarding or exiting of a disabled pupil or in the case of an emergency.
Title: S.B. 384
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Allows school districts to provide transportation to nonpublic school students if no additional public funds are expended to provide the transportation.
Title: S.B. 224
Source: StateNet
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| WY | Adopted 02/2003 | P-12 | Pertains to criteria and standards for determining eligible pupil transportation operation and maintenance costs, school bus fleet requirements, operational standards, and school bus purchase procedures used in calculating transportation amounts under the Cost-based Block Grant Model. WYOMING REG 4331 (SN)
Title: Chapter 20
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Signed into law 01/2003 | P-12 | Increases the penalty for passing a school bus. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/seslaw02/sl020443.htm
Title: H.B. 4405
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | Allows administration of physical examinations for school bus drivers who transport passengers and operate other pupil transportation vehicles as authorized by the Department of Transportation by physicians' assistants. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2001-2002/publicact/pdf/2002-PA-0647.pdf
Title: S.B. 1390
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | Prohibits the use of a cellular or wireless telephone while driving a school bus; provides for a monetary fine for violations; provides that no motor vehicle or automobile insurance eligibility points shall be assessed for this offense.
Title: A.B. 445
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2002 | P-12 | Provides for notification of charges pending for a disqualifying crime or offense against a public or nonpublic school employee or school bus driver who has previously undergone a criminal history background check.
Title: S.B. 1709
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Rejected by voters 11/2002 | P-12 | Reallocates 30% of certain state revenues collected on motor vehicle sales or leases from the General Fund to the Traffic Congestion Relief and Safe School Bus Trust Fund. Allocates funds for specific areas including bus purchases. (http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm#2002General)
Title: Proposition 51
Source: California Secretary of State
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Extends the repeal date of certain provisions of law requiring traffic to yield the right of way to certain transit buses in specified counties. Requires every transit bus operated by a public agency on behalf of a public agency that provides public transportation services to be equipped with a 2-way communication device that enables the driver to contact the agency in the event of an emergency. Exempts buses operated by or on behalf of school districts.
Title: A.B. 629
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Relates to the requirement that school buses manufactured on or after January 1, 2002, and purchased or leased for use in California have a passenger restraint system. Applies these provisions to any type 2 school pupil activity buses manufactured on or after July 1, 2004. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/asm/ab_2651-2700/ab_2681_bill_20020904_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 2681
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2002 | P-12 | Requires school bus attendants to receive training relating to the special needs of pupils with a handicapping condition; provides that bus attendants shall be required to pass a physical performance test.
Title: A.B. 2786
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Provides that all use of cellular phones by a school bus driver would be prohibited, except in the case of an emergency.
Title: H.B. 6924
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | To governor 06/2002 | P-12 | This act would impose penalties against school bus drivers that use cell phones, other than for emergency purposes, while transporting children.
Title: S.B. 2164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Prohibits issuance of certificate to drive school bus in this state if applicant has been convicted of driving under the influence, vehicular homicide, or aggravated vehicular assault within 5 years of application for certificate.
Title: H.B. 2106
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Changes requirement that school buses be inspected a minimum of once a month to requirement that they be inspected pursuant to state board rule. Modifies groups eligible to determine a hazardous walking condition from "any of the following: representative of school district, representative of county sheriff, representative of local safety council, and representative of state/local government agency" to "superintendent or designee and state/local government entity." See bill section 297, page 701, line number 13, ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | In funds for student transportation, shifts rule authority from commissioner to state board (see bill section 660, page 1239, line 8 ff); permits local boards to establish resolution that can include a convenant to decrease the capital local school property tax levied (see bill section 664, page 1251, line 4 ff); establishes new section for Florida Academic Improvement Trust Fund, which institutes a public schools matching grants program (see section 670, page 1258, line 1 ff): http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Establishes a school bus fare revolving fund for the deposit of school bus fares collected by schools from students or guardians; provides that annual collections are to be used to fund the cost of providing state-contracted school bus services. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2480_.htm
Title: H.B. 2480
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| MD | Vetoed 05/2002 | P-12 | Alters the distribution of uninsured motorist penalty fees to provide for a distribution to the Vehicle Theft Prevention Fund providing for the distribution of uninsured motorist penalty fees to the School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/veto_letters/sb0625.htm
Title: S.B. 625
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | States that a school bus or van operator shall be properly licensed to operate the category of vehicles that the operator operates as a school bus or van and shall comply with the standards of the department of transportation. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2580_.htm
Title: H.B. 2580
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Adds one nonvoting student member to state board, making total board membership 10, provides for application process and appointment of student member. Also requires school districts and nonpublic schools to report number of ninth graders who do not graduate from the school or school district, as well as the number of students who are tested on multiple assessment measures to determine student achievement levels, and the percentage of students who are so tested annually. Requires the board to develop and adopt uniform definitions consistent with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and any federal regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Act. Permits department to conduct school site visits of accredited schools and districts on as-needed basis. Addresses conditions of employment of Superintendent staff. Addresses procedures in open enrollment law. Renders provision of school breakfast programs optional rather than mandatory. Modifies section addressing parental reimbursement for nonpublic school pupil transportation. Regulates the provision of textbooks to students in accredited nonpublic schools. Modifies requirements for school bus drivers' licenses. Establishes a conservation education program board and the duties of said board. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02500/HF02515/Current.html
Title: H.B. 2515
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Requires an operator of a school bus to obtain a special commercial driver's license endorsement from the Motor Vehicle Administration under certain circumstances; provides that the school bus endorsement is also an endorsement to operate a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0322t.rtf
Title: H.B. 322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Requires crossing gates on school buses; grants rule making authority; provides a penalty; requires Department of Transportation to prescribe rules for the specifications, installation, and operation of these crossing gates.
Title: S.B. 179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Makes changes to the voting and nonvoting members of the state school bus committee; requires the committee to adopt rules allowing the display of the United States flag on school buses; amends the definition of a special purpose bus to include a motor vehicle owned by a school corporation used to transport children that complies with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and has certain other specifications. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?document=HE/HE1133.1.html&year=2002
Title: H.B. 1133
Source: www.in.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Provides that school districts shall not be prohibited from placing or displaying the United States flag on school districts buses when it does not interfere with the safe operation of the bus.
Title: S.B. 6389
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | To governor 12/2001 | P-12 | Extends transportation services to nonpublic school pupils who reside in certain regional school districts that provide aid in-lieu-of payments.
Title: A.B. 2928
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the return transportation of students from extracurricular activities; requires that transportation back shall be provided for a student unless the student's parent or legal guardian has provided the district with notice authorizing the alternative form of return transportation for such student.
Title: S.B. 5805
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Pupil Transportation Task Force to review the strengths and limitations of the present pupil transportation system, assess the availability and accessibility of data needed to create and implement a new pupil transportation funding formula and develop a comprehensive work plan. Reappropriates funding for these purposes.
Title: A.B. 1213
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | Requires every transit bus operated by a public agency on behalf of a public agency that provides public transportation services to be equipped with a 2-way communication device, that enables the driver to contact the agency in the event of an emergency. Requires the device to be maintained in good working order. Exempts buses operated by or on behalf of a school district from requirements.
Title: A.B. 1079
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | From the legislation:
Currently, in order to get a school bus endorsement, drivers can not have been convicted of a felony within the past 5 years. This Act modifies that requirement so that it more closely parallels the rules governing when a convicted felon would be eligible to regain the right to vote. This Act also closes a loophole in the law governing school bus drivers who operate school busses within the State on licenses issued by another state (i.e. out-of-state drivers). Finally, this Act contains a grandfather clause so that persons who are currently school bus drivers will not be adversely effected.
Title: S.B. 170
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | , Authorizes local school boards to lease school buses from their school bus operators under certain circumstances; provides an exception to the Code of Governmental Ethics for the leases.
Title: H.B. 1955
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes 10-year lease purchase agreements for acquisition of school buses.
Title: A.B. 2934
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | City and county governing bodies shall work with school district personnel to identify barriers and hazards
to children walking or bicycling to and from school. The cities, counties and districts may develop a plan for the funding of improvements designed to reduce the barriers and hazards identified.
Title: H.B. 3712
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/hb3700.dir/hb3712.en.html
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires a person that transports children in the care of a preschool operated by a school corporation, a public elementary school, or a public secondary school to transport the children in a school bus or, in certain circumstances permitted under Indiana law, a special purpose bus; provides that person who violates certain provisions regarding the transportation of school children commits a Class B infraction.
Title: S.B. 501
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Increases the base rate for reimbursement for an individual transportation contract to a specified amount; increases the maximum reimbursement for an individual transportation contract to a specified amount for the 1st student and a specified amount for each additional student.
Title: S.B. 344
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires students to be seated while the school bus is moving.
Title: H.B. 2464
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Specifies school bus lighting equipment and school bus driver requirements and pre-employment criminal history checks; provides that a school bus driver certificate may be revoked if the person's driver's license is revoked or suspended.
Title: H.B. 2181
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Clarifies and strengthens the law pertaining to persons who interfere with the operation of public school buses; relates to clarifying that it is unlawful to stop, impede, delay, or detain any public school bus or activity bus during any time that it is being operated for public school purposes.
Title: S.B. 45
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to elementary and secondary education provisions addressed in the creation of North Dakota Century Code; relates to administration, boards, teacher licenses; school guidance and counseling services; special education; vocational and technology education; school finance; transportation.
Title: H.B. 1045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Expands the role of county superintendents relative to pupil transportation; requires them to arbitrate disputes between boards of education and nonpublic school administrators and convene annual meetings of representatives of county public and nonpublic schools to discuss such issues; permits districts and cooperative transportation services agencies to contract for subscription busing to all public and nonpublic students not eligible or recieving in-lieu of transportation payments.
Title: S.B. 2097
Source: New Jersey Legislature's Web Site
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state department of public education for expenditure in fiscal years 2001 and 2002 to continue the development of the public school transportation formula and to implement a pilot transportation management information system.
Title: H.B. 689
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | The bill would allow an individual school bus owner-operator to exercise an option to convert their contract to a fleet operator contract without being required to submit to a competitive bidding process. According to SDE, individual owner-operators that change their status to a fleet contractor will no longer be considered an employee of the school district and will not be entitled to school district employee benefits including continuation or retirement contributions.
Title: H.B. 108
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Changes the definition of commercial vehicle to exclude school buses regulated by the Department of Education, from the regulation by the Department of Public Safety.
Title: S.B. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Modifies the Public Safety Code by requiring vehicles used to transport students to comply with certain safety standards.
Title: H.B. 85
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Changes provisions relating to inspection of pupil transportation vehicles.
Title: L.B. 36
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Relates to passing a stopped school bus; provides that for the purpose of being reckless driving or having a civil penalty imposed, the testimony of the school bus driver, the supervisor of school buses or a law-enforcement officer that the vehicle was yellow, conspicuously marked as a school bus, and equipped with warning devices is prima facie evidence that the vehicle is a school bus.
Title: S.B. 905
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Specifies where a on a roadway a school bus shall stop to receive or discharge children.
Title: H.B. 325
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Chapter No.521, Relates to existing law, under which, the prima facie vehicle speed limit is 25 miles-per-hour under certain circumstances, including when passing a school building or the grounds thereof, if the school grounds are contiguous to a highway and a standard school warning sign is posted. Provides that the above described 25-mile-per-hour speed limit with respect to school grounds is applicable when approaching or passing the school grounds.
Title: A.B. 280
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Relates to existing law, which the Department of Motor Vehicles is required to deny or revoke a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit driver certificate, or a certificate to drive a vehicle used for the transportation of developmentally disabled persons, for any one of specified causes. Recasts a specified referenced provision by limiting its application to the denial of a certificate for an original application to drive the specified vehicles.
Title: A.B. 1307
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Provides transportation or in-lieu-of payments to certain nonpublic school pupils in certain school districts. Permits the purchase of such services from cooperative transportation service agencies.
Title: A.B. 1337, AB 1674
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | P-12 | Requires all school buses to be equipped with a rear facing flashing strobe light; provides for the conditions under which such lights should be used.
Title: H.B. 7163
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | P-12 | Gives peace officers the authority to issue summons based on the statements of school bus drivers and bus monitors as to violations of the requirement to stop for school buses.
Title: H.B. 7380
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Requires that a flashing white strobe light be placed on the roof of every school bus to enhance the conspicuous of school busses in daylight, darkness, and bad weather.
Title: H.B. 442
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Extends the period for a judge to issue a summons for illegally passing a school bus and certain other motor vehicle and traffic violations.
Title: A.B. 622
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 | P-12 | 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 driver or refuse to disembark at the request of the driver.
Title: H.B. 6858
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Requires that all new school buses be equipped with crossing control arms; requires a new or increased expenditure of local funds.
Title: H.B. 701
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Concerns school districts; relates to the provision of transportation for pupils. The bill outlines what students can qualify for transportation to and from school. It also states that one district may charge another to transport a student in their district.
Title: H.B. 2862
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Establishes a grant program under which law enforcement agencies may apply for funds for efforts relating to enforcement of the law prohibiting passing stopped school vehicles; establishes a School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund; provides for the administration, composition, and use of the Fund; prescribes a revenue source for the Fund; specifies certain budgetary procedures.
Title: H.B. 104
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Makes certain adjustments to the formula for transportation grants to county boards of education; adjusts the time period for calculating increases in the grant amounts.
Title: S.B. 106
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides that public and private schools must transport 10 or more students in school or activity bus; provides that vehicles purchased before a certain date have a grace period during which they must comply with this provision; provides that during the grace period a non-complying vehicle must display a decal that states the vehicle does not meet the safety requirements of a school bus.
Title: H.B. 3300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Makes a social host who furnishes intoxicating liquor to a minor liable under the Dram Shop Act for damages and injuries caused by the intoxicated minor; changes illegal blood alcohol concentration to .02 for a school bus operator.
Title: H.B. 566
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | 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 top of the school bus and number of the school district on the back of the school bus in black letters that are 4 to 6 inches high.
Title: H.B. 1267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Education to promote strategies to assist school districts in providing a safe transportation system; directs the Department of Education to report on its effect to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by January 1, 2001.
Title: H.J.R. 101
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Requires state school bus committee to review state and federal requirement for display of flashing yellow and red signal lamps by school bus coming to stop to unload or load children determining: (1) whether safety could increase by earlier display of flashing lamps; and (2) feasibility of amending state laws to request change in federal regulations to require earlier display of signal lamps; requires committee to report to legislative counsel December 1, 1999.
Title: H.B. 1296
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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