Bill Text: MI HB4692 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; school districts; school district option to charge a fee for bus transportation; allow. Amends sec. 1321 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1321).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-01 - Printed Bill Filed 06/01/2011 [HB4692 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4692-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4692

 

May 31, 2011, Introduced by Rep. Heise and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 1321 (MCL 380.1321), as amended by 2008 PA 1.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1321. (1) Subject to the balance of this section, the

 

board of a school district providing that elects to provide

 

transportation for its resident pupils, other than students with a

 

disability transported under article 3 or other pupils who cannot

 

safely walk to school, shall offer to provide transportation for

 

each resident public or nonpublic school pupil if all of the

 

following requirements are met:

 

     (a) The school district provides transportation for the

 

elementary school level, middle or junior high school level, or

 

high school level, as defined by the local school board, in which

 

the pupil is enrolled.

 

     (b) The pupil is a person for whom the school district is

 

eligible to receive state school aid for transportation.

 

     (c) The pupil is attending either the public or the nearest

 

state approved nonpublic school in the school district to which the

 

pupil is eligible to be admitted.

 

     (2) Transportation provided under subsection (1) shall be

 

without charge to the resident pupil, the parent, guardian, or

 

person standing in loco parentis to the pupil. The board of a

 

school district that elects to provide transportation for its

 

resident pupils may charge a fee for providing that transportation

 

or for any other transportation that the school district offers.

 

However, the board of a school district shall not charge a fee for

 

transporting a pupil to and from school if the pupil meets either

 

of the following:

 

     (a) Is a student with a disability.

 

     (b) Meets the income eligibility criteria for free breakfast,

 

lunch, or milk, as determined under the Richard B. Russell national

 

school lunch act, 42 USC 1751 to 1769i.

 

     (3) A school district that elects to provide transportation is

 

not required to transport or pay for transportation of a resident

 

pupil living within 1-1/2 miles, by the nearest traveled route, to

 

the public or state approved nonpublic school in which the pupil is

 

enrolled. A school district that elects to provide transportation

 

is not required to transport or pay for the transportation of a

 

resident pupil attending a nonpublic school who lives in an area

 

less than 1-1/2 miles from a public school in which public school

 

pupils are not transported, except that the school district is

 

required to transport or pay for the transportation of the resident

 

pupil from the public school within the area to the nonpublic

 

school the pupil attends.

 

     (4) A school district that elects to provide transportation is

 

not required to transport or pay for the transportation of resident

 

pupils to state approved nonpublic schools located outside the

 

district unless the school district transports some of its resident

 

pupils, other than students with a disability under article 3, to

 

public schools located outside the district, in which case the

 

school district shall transport or pay for the transportation of

 

resident pupils attending a state approved nonpublic school at

 

least to the distance of the public schools located outside the

 

district to which the district transports resident pupils and in

 

the same general direction.