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SENATE BILL NO. 987 Offered January 8, 2003 Prefiled January 7, 2003 A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-177 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulation of school buses. ----------
Patrons-- Mims, Cuccinelli, Potts, Puller and Ticer; Delegates: Albo, Amundson, Black, Bolvin, Callahan, Marshall, R.G., May, Petersen, Reese, Rust and Watts
---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22.1-177 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22.1-177. Regulations.

The Board may make regulations relating to the construction, design, operation, equipment, and color of public school buses and shall have the authority to issue an order prohibiting the operation on public streets and highways of any public school bus which does not comply with such regulations. Any such order shall be enforced by the Department of State Police.

Such regulations shall include provisions for the display of decals depicting the flag of the United States on the sides and rear of school buses.

No regulation of the Board shall unreasonably limit the authority of any local school division to purchase and use school buses using compressed natural gas or other alternative fuels or convert its school buses to use compressed natural gas or other alternative fuels.