WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Enrolled

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 241

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

[Passed February 29, 2020; in effect 90 days from passage]

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9A-7a, relating to requiring State Board of Education to propose revisions to calculation of allowance for service personnel to provide additional positions to meet student transportation needs of certain lower population density districts; 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.