WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 241

Senators Baldwin, Roberts, Rucker, and Stollings, original sponsors

[Originating in the Committee on Education; reported on January 24, 2020]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9A-7a, relating to requiring the State Board of Education to develop a method for funding student transportation costs as a stand-alone consideration; requiring proposed revisions to the calculation method of the allowance for service personnel; and requiring a report to the Legislature.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARtICLE 9a. Public School Support.

§18-9A-7a.  Report on alternate method for funding student transportation costs required.

(a) The Legislature finds that the present method of calculating the allowance for service personnel in §18-9A-5 may not provide sufficient funding to meet the student transportation needs of lower-population density districts covering a large geographic area.

(b) The State Board of Education shall propose revisions to the calculation of the allowance for service personnel in §18-9A-5 to provide additional funded service personnel positions for the districts described in subsection (a) of this section and shall report the proposal to the Legislature before September 1, 2020.