HB 977

Abstract

Expeditious resolution of complaints relatingto certain student transportation safety issues. Requires eachlocality and the Department of Transportation, as applicable, toexpeditiously respond to and assist in the resolution of, to themaximum extent practicable, any complaint received by or on behalfof any public elementary or secondary school student relating tosuch student's safety on the streets, roads, sidewalks, and crosswalkssurrounding school property as such student arrives to or departs from school and permits, for the purposes of complying with suchrequirement, any school board to enter into a memorandum of understandingwith the locality or the Department, as applicable, for the establishmentof a protocol or the designation of an ombudsman for the resolutionof such complaints.