Bill Text: IA SF2137 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to school bus route ride time limitations. (Formerly SSB 3002.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-27 - Subcommittee recommends passage. [SF2137 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2137-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2137 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     3002)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to school bus route ride time limitations.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 285.1, Code 2018, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  23.  a.  The board of directors of a school
  1  4 district may extend the one=way riding time for an elementary
  1  5 pupil, who is entitled to transportation pursuant to subsection
  1  6 1, between the designated stop and the school designated for
  1  7 attendance from sixty minutes to seventy=five minutes.
  1  8    b.  The board of directors of a school district may extend
  1  9 the one=way riding time for an elementary or high school pupil,
  1 10 who is entitled to transportation pursuant to subsection 1,
  1 11 between the designated stop and the school designated for
  1 12 attendance beyond seventy=five minutes if the board holds two
  1 13 public hearings on a proposed resolution describing the change
  1 14 to the bus route, notifies all affected persons of the proposed
  1 15 change thirty days before the route change is made, and adopts
  1 16 the resolution at the next regularly scheduled board meeting
  1 17 following the public hearings. The board shall publish notice
  1 18 of the time and place of each public hearing not less than
  1 19 ten nor more than twenty days before the public hearing in a
  1 20 newspaper of general circulation in the school district and on
  1 21 the school district's internet site.
  1 22    c.  The board of directors of a school district may extend
  1 23 the one=way riding time for an elementary or high school pupil,
  1 24 who is entitled to transportation pursuant to subsection 1,
  1 25 between the designated stop and the school designated for
  1 26 attendance or between the pupil's designated attendance center
  1 27 and another attendance center for the purposes of meeting
  1 28 specific educational needs.
  1 29                           EXPLANATION
  1 30 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 31 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 32    This bill authorizes school boards to extend one=way school
  1 33 bus riding times for pupils in a number of ways.
  1 34    First, a school board may extend the riding time limitation,
  1 35 which is established for elementary pupils under rules adopted
  2  1 by the state board of education, from 60 minutes to 75 minutes.
  2  2    Second, a school board may extend the riding time for an
  2  3 elementary or high school pupil beyond 75 minutes if the board
  2  4 holds two public hearings on a proposed resolution describing
  2  5 the bus route change, publishes notice of the public hearings,
  2  6 notifies all affected persons of the proposed change 30 days
  2  7 before the route change is made, and adopts the resolution at
  2  8 the next regularly scheduled board meeting.
  2  9    Finally, a school board may extend the riding time for
  2 10 elementary or high school pupils for purposes of meeting
  2 11 specific educational needs.
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