By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 3094 75R7524 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to state funding for transportation of public school 1-3 students on routes with hazardous traffic conditions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 42.155(d), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (d) A district or county may apply for and on approval of 1-8 the commissioner receive an additional amount of up to 10 percent 1-9 of its regular transportation allotment to be used for the 1-10 transportation of children living within two miles of the school 1-11 they attend who would be subject to hazardous traffic conditions if 1-12 they walked to school. Each board of trustees shall provide to the 1-13 commissioner the definition of hazardous conditions applicable to 1-14 that district and shall identify the specific hazardous areas for 1-15 which the allocation is requested. A hazardous condition exists 1-16 where no walkway is provided and children must walk along or cross 1-17 a freeway or expressway, an underpass, an overpass or a bridge, an 1-18 uncontrolled major traffic artery, an industrial or commercial 1-19 area, or another comparable condition. The commissioner may not 1-20 use the number of students transported or miles traveled for which 1-21 an additional allotment is made under this subsection in computing 1-22 the linear density of a transportation system. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.