Bill Text: TX HB243 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the route a school bus takes when transporting a public school student.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-11 - Referred to Public Education [HB243 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB243-Introduced.html
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| By: Longoria | H.B. No. 243 | |
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| relating to the route a school bus takes when transporting a public | ||
| school student. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 34, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 34.0031 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 34.0031. SCHOOL BUS ROUTES. (a) A school district | ||
| shall design a route with approved stops to be taken by a school bus | ||
| transporting a student between the student's residence and school | ||
| campus. The route designed by the district may not in any manner | ||
| require a student to cross a highway or roadway between the | ||
| student's residence and approved bus stop. | ||
| (b) If during a school year a new student is added to a | ||
| school bus route, the school district shall update the school bus | ||
| route as necessary to ensure that the route remains in compliance | ||
| with Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
