Bill Text: NJ A2896 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires school districts and school bus contractors to ensure that school bus drivers are familiar with assigned route.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A2896 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2896-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JOHN J. BURZICHELLI
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
SYNOPSIS
Requires school districts and school bus contractors to ensure that school bus drivers are familiar with assigned route.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning school bus drivers and supplementing chapter 39 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A school district that owns and operates its own school buses and a school bus contractor shall ensure that any school bus driver who transports pupils to or from a public or nonpublic school is familiar with the assigned route and the location of all designated bus stops along that route prior to transporting pupils.
b. The Commissioner of Education may impose a monetary penalty in such amount as the commissioner deems appropriate against a school district that owns and operates its own school buses or a school bus contractor for failing to comply with subsection a. of this section.
2. The State Board of Education shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would require that a school district that owns and operates its own school buses and a school bus contractor ensure that any school bus driver who transports pupils to or from a public or nonpublic school is familiar with the route to which he is assigned and with the location of all designated bus stops along that route prior to transporting pupils. The bill also authorizes the Commissioner of Education to impose a monetary penalty in such amount as the commissioner deems appropriate for the failure of a school district or school bus contractor to comply with the bill's requirements.
