Pupil transportation.
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Fiscal committee
No
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Education
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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Overview
This bill changes rules about how school employees can drive students. Currently, there’s a limit on how many hours a school employee can drive students for activities like field trips – 40 hours per year. This bill removes that limit, but with a few exceptions. It also creates a grant program to help smaller, rural school districts meet driver safety requirements, including training and inspections. The bill allows rural school districts to authorize non-employee drivers for limited activities, provided they meet specific criteria.
Key provisions
- Removes the 40-hour annual drive time limit for school employees transporting students for field trips, extracurriculars, or athletic programs.
- Establishes the Rural Transportation Safety Grant Program to support training, inspections, and compliance for small and rural school districts.
- Allows rural school districts (under 2,500 ADAs and frontier districts) to authorize non-employee drivers for limited activities.
- Sets a 200-hour annual drive time limit for school employees in rural districts instead of 40.
- Requires rural activity drivers to meet specific driving record and training requirements.
- Mandates annual vehicle safety inspections for rural activity drivers.
- Requires local educational agencies to maintain records of driver authorizations and training.
- Prohibits rural activity drivers from exceeding 200 road miles in a single trip.
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