HB 1208

Abstract

School boards; duties; student transportation in certain cases. Requires each school board that provides for the transportation of students and that has established a rule, regulation, or policy to exclude certain students who reside within a certain distance from the school at which they are enrolled from accessing such transportation to establish a process for waiving, on a case-by-case and space-available basis, such exclusion and providing transportation to any such student whose parent is unable to provide adequate transportation for his child to attend school because the parent is providing necessary medical care to another family member who resides in the same household, as evidenced by a written explanation submitted by a licensed health care provider who provides care to such family member.

School boards; duties; assistance with studentbus pass applications. Requires each school board to establisha process for assisting any student whose family members have oneor more medical conditions that preclude them from providing transportationfor the student to attend school to apply for and obtain a pass toride a regionally operated or locally operated bus to school.