Bill Text: CT SB00487 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Transportation Of Adult Students In Transitional Programs.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-04-15 - House Calendar Number 418 [SB00487 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00487-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 487
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 4464
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Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING TRANSPORTATION OF ADULT STUDENTS IN TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 14-280 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2015):

(a) (1) When a school bus is used for any purpose other than the transportation of children to and from schools or school activities, private or public camps or any other activities for which groups of children are transported, the special signals normally used when so engaged shall be left unused or disconnected.

(2) Any student transportation vehicle when engaged in the transportation of children to and from private or public camps or the transportation exclusively of children to activities, except school activities, may display a sign or signs, as described in subsection (b) of this section. Any motor vehicle, other than a registered school bus, not owned by a public, private or religious school, or under contract to such school, when engaged in the transportation of school children to and from school or school activities, may display a sign or signs, as described in subsection (b) of this section.

(3) Any student transportation vehicle, when engaged in the transportation of school children to and from school or school activities, shall display a sign or signs, as described in subsection (b) of this section, except a student transportation vehicle, when engaged in the transportation of students aged eighteen to twenty-one, inclusive, who, as part of an individualized education program, are participating in community-based transition services, may display a sign or signs, as described in subsection (b) of this section.

(4) Any portable signs, as described in subsection (b) of this section, that are permitted or required under this section may be removed or covered when the vehicle is not being used for the purposes requiring or allowing the use of such signs as specified in this section.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2015	14-280(a)

TRA

Joint Favorable