Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 517 amends the Education Code to require the use of school buses or motor buses to transport 15 or more students in any one vehicle in connection with school activities outside the normal school bus routes and to allow the use of passenger vans for the transportation of 14 or fewer students. The act also extends the prohibition against children standing in a moving school vehicle to apply to students in a moving passenger van.

            Senate Bill 517 allows a school district to charge a fee for the transportation of a student who lives within two miles of the school the student attends if the school is not entitled to additional state aid for that transportation service.

            Senate Bill 517 takes effect with the 1997-1998 school year.