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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (202 2)
HOUSE BILL 3086 By: Hilbert
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; authorizing school
district to use portion of transportation funds for
transportation grants; describing purpose of grant;
requiring district to develop and submit plan for
grant to the State D epartment of Education;
permitting distribution of grants for transporting
students; prohibiting reduction or penalty for
transportation funding; mandating rule promulgation
and development of procedures; requiring proof of
attendance for certain students ; providing for
codification; providing an effective date ; and
declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codi fied
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 9-120 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, a school district
may use a portion of the transportation funds allocated to the
school district pursuant to Section 18 -201.1 of Title 70 of the
Oklahoma Statutes to provide transportation grants to parents or
legal guardians of students who attend the school district. The
school district shall develop and submit a plan to the State
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Department of Education for distribution of the transportation
grants. Upon approval of the plan b y the Department, school
districts may distribute transportation grants to suppo rt
individuals or neighborhood carpools in transporting students to and
from school.
B. The transportation funds allocated to the school district
pursuant to Section 18 -201.1 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes
shall not be reduced or otherwise penalized if the school district
awards transportation grants authorized in this section .
C. The State Department of Education shall promulgate rules for
the transportation grants and develop procedures to account for
expenditures as provided by this section, including requiring proof
of attendance for stude nts who are transported to and fro m school
through transportation grant funds.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, he alth or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage an d approval.
58-2-8853 EK 01/16/22