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2024 SESSION

24102973D
HOUSE BILL NO. 937
Offered January 10, 2024
Prefiled January 9, 2024
A BILL to require the General Assembly to hold school boards harmless in the provision of state funding for student transportation in certain cases.
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Patrons-- LeVere Bolling, Carr and Cousins
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Referred to Committee on Appropriations
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. No school board that implements innovative low-cost or no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from school on school buses, including organizing or otherwise facilitating, encouraging, or supporting bike buses whereby groups of students ride bicycles to and from school, shall be penalized in the calculation of the prevailing costs of student transportation for the purpose of providing state funding to support the cost of public education.