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Amend HB 2 by adding the following appropriately numbered 

SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

	SECTION __.  Section 34.008, Education Code, is amended to 

read as follows:  

	Sec. 34.008.  CONTRACT WITH TRANSIT AUTHORITY, [OR] 

COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, OR JUVENILE BOARD.  (a) A board 

of county school trustees or school district board of trustees may 

contract with a mass transit authority, [or] a commercial 

transportation company, or a juvenile board for all or any part of a 

district's public school transportation if the authority, [or] 

company, or board:

		(1)  requires its school bus drivers to have the 

qualifications required by and to be certified in accordance with 

standards established by the Department of Public Safety; and

		(2)  uses only those school buses or mass transit 

authority buses in transporting 15 or more public school students 

that meet or exceed safety standards for school buses established 

under Section 34.002, Education Code.