By: Villarreal (Senate Sponsor - Davis) H.B. No. 3506
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2011;
May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 19, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of transportation allotment funds by school
districts to provide bus passes or cards to certain students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.155, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
(l) A school district may, with the funds allotted under
this section, provide a bus pass or card for another transportation
system to each student who is eligible to use the regular
transportation system of the district but for whom the regular
transportation system of the district is not a feasible method of
providing transportation. The commissioner by rule shall provide
procedures for a school district to provide bus passes or cards to
students under this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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