HB4380 S ED AMT #1 3-1

Hager  7871

The Committee on Education moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. House Bill 4380—A Bill to amend and reenact §18-5-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the transportation of students and passengers; allowing service employees to be certified to drive certain county board-owned vehicles that professional employees currently can be certified to drive to transport students for school-sponsored activities; requiring the vehicles to be insured; providing that 10 passenger limit of the vehicles includes the driver; increasing the number of these vehicles which may be used for any school-sponsored activity; allowing students to be transported to a school-sponsored activity in a county-owned or leased vehicle that does not meet school bus or public transit ratings if the seating capacity of the vehicle is less than 10 passengers including the driver; allowing a guardian or other adult approved in writing by the parent or guardian to transport students in a privately owned vehicle; removing limit on the number of students that can be transported in a privately owned vehicle by a parent, guardian, or other adult approved in writing by the parent or guardian; and clarifying that busses shall be used to transport nineteen or more passengers.

Adopted

Rejected