By Naishtat, Dukes H.B. No. 2806 74R6873 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the safety of public school students riding on 1-3 transportation company or system buses. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.181, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-7 (g) The transportation company or system contracting under 1-8 this section shall conduct, in a manner and on a schedule approved 1-9 by the county or district school board, the following education 1-10 programs: 1-11 (1) a program to inform the public that public school 1-12 students will be riding on the company's or system's buses; 1-13 (2) a program to educate the drivers of the buses to 1-14 be used under the contract of the special needs and problems of 1-15 public school students riding on the buses; and 1-16 (3) a program to educate public school students on bus 1-17 riding safety and any special considerations arising from the use 1-18 of the company's or system's buses. 1-19 SECTION 2. A transportation company or district subject to 1-20 Section 21.181(g), Education Code, as added by this Act, on the 1-21 effective date of this Act, shall begin conducting the programs 1-22 required by that section before January 1, 1996. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.