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Regular Session, 2011 ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 4
BY SENATOR NEVERS
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to revise
Section 2509 of Bulletin 119 - Louisiana School Transportation Specifications and
Procedures - to establish uniform requirements relative to the purchase of used
school buses for all school bus owners/operators.
WHEREAS, Section 2509 of Bulletin 119 establishes different requirements for
tenured and non-tenured school bus owners/operators for the purchase of used school buses;
and
WHEREAS, currently, a tenured school bus owner/operator may buy a bus that is
ten or less model years old, but a non-tenured owner/operator may only purchase a bus that
is five or less model years old; and
WHEREAS, prior to recent revisions of Bulletin 119, this inequity between the
requirements for tenured and non-tenured school bus owners/operators did not exist and
there is no documented need for this disparity; and
WHEREAS, the current shortage of high quality, late-model used school buses puts
non-tenured school bus owners/operators at an even greater disadvantage; and
WHEREAS, the safety of our children should be the primary criteria governing the
purchase of school buses and the same standards should apply to all, regardless of
employment status.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to revise Section
2509 of Bulletin 119 - Louisiana School Transportation Specifications and Procedures - to
establish uniform requirements relative to the purchase of used school buses for all school
bus owners/operators. SCR NO. 4 ENROLLED
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state superintendent of
education.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES