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.