700 Torrance Bl. Since school transportation is primarily involved with safety, and more specifically the safety of children, it is a highly regulated field. In this section user will find information about how the federal government exercises it regulatory power over the industry.
Regulations start long before a single yellow school bus hits the road.
Indeed, regulations typically begin with what the federal government refers to as Notices of Proposed Rulemaking, or even as Advanced Notices of Proposed Rulemaking. NPRMs are the method by which the federal government informs citizens that new federal regulations are in the development stage. By law, NPRM's must be published in the daily Federal Register and remain open for comment from the public for several months. Sometimes they are formally enacted and become the law of the land, other times they are rejected altogether. Some proposed regulations transit the rulemaking process in a matter of months, others take a decade or more.