By: Ellis S.B. No. 1722
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to a school district transportation allotment.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 42.155, Education Code, is amended by
1-4 amending Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-5 (d) A district or county may apply for and on approval of
1-6 the commissioner receive an additional amount of up to 10 percent
1-7 of its regular transportation allotment to be used for the
1-8 transportation of children living within two miles of the school
1-9 they attend who would be subject to hazardous [traffic] conditions
1-10 if they walked to school. Each board of trustees shall provide to
1-11 the commissioner the definitions [definition] of hazardous
1-12 conditions applicable to that district and shall identify the
1-13 specific hazardous areas for which the allocation is requested. A
1-14 hazardous condition exists where no safe walkway is provided or
1-15 [and] children must walk along or cross a freeway or expressway, an
1-16 underpass, an overpass or a bridge, an uncontrolled major traffic
1-17 artery, an industrial or commercial area, a deserted area or an
1-18 area of criminal activity, or another comparable condition.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.