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2024 SESSION

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HB 937 Innovative alternative school transportation; school boards to implement low/no-cost alternatives.

Introduced by: Destiny LeVere Bolling | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses. States that the intent of the General Assembly is that school boards encourage the implementation of 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 biking or walking school buses whereby groups of students ride bicycles or walk to and from school.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

School boards; state funding for public education; student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses. Provides that 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.