Source: http://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=79904
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RS 17:158
§158. School buses for transportation of students; employment of bus operators; alternative means of transportation; improvement of school bus turnarounds; loading and unloading students
A.(1) Except as provided by Subsection H of this Section and in accordance with the requirements of Subsection F of this Section, each city, parish, and other local public school board shall provide free transportation for any student attending a school of suitable grade approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education within the jurisdictional boundaries of the local board if the student resides more than one mile from such school. This requirement shall not apply to any student attending a nonpublic school pursuant to R.S. 17:4011 through 4025.
H.(1) No parish or city school board shall eliminate or reduce the level of transportation services provided to students as required by the provisions of this Section except for economically justifiable reasons approved in accordance with the provisions of this Subsection by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(a) Figures for the three most recently completed fiscal years showing the board's actual revenues from all sources, including any prior year surpluses, and actual expenditures for operating purposes. These figures shall include detailed information relative to any revenues received specifically for providing transportation services to students and the actual expenditures of the board for providing transportation services to students.
(b) Figures for the current fiscal year and for the next fiscal year showing, according to the most recent estimates, the board's anticipated revenues from all sources, including any prior year surpluses, and anticipated expenditures for operating purposes. These figures shall include detailed information relative to any anticipated revenues to be received specifically for providing transportation services to students and the anticipated expenditures of the board for providing transportation services to students.
(c) The estimated cost on both a per pupil basis and on a per bus route basis for the current fiscal year and for the next fiscal year for the board to comply with the student transportation requirements of Paragraph (A)(1) and Subsection F of this Section.
(d) A description of the board's proposed reduction in or elimination of student transportation services indicating the number of students involved, any specific routes proposed for reduction or elimination, and the estimated savings to be achieved through the reduction of elimination of transportation services.
I.(1) Each city, parish, and other local public school board may provide transportation to any full-time student who is twenty years of age or younger and attending a technical college campus, that is part of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, within the jurisdictional boundaries of the local board. If the closest technical college campus is located outside the jurisdictional boundaries of the local school board, the board may facilitate the transportation or coordinate with neighboring boards to facilitate transportation to the technical college campus.
(1) Prohibit a bus operator from loading or unloading students at school while the bus is in a traffic lane of any type of street as defined in R.S. 32:1 and require that students be loaded or unloaded on a shoulder, in a school parking lot, or at other appropriate off-road location at the school as determined by the school governing authority. The requirements of this Paragraph shall not apply if the shoulder of a municipal road is the only available alternative and the municipality has not made the shoulder available by designating that area for loading and unloading students during designated school zone hours.
(2) Prohibit a bus operator from loading or unloading students at or near their homes while the bus is in a traffic lane of any type of street as defined in R.S. 32:1 and require that students be loaded or unloaded on a shoulder unless the governing authority determines that loading or unloading on a shoulder is less safe for the student. However, if there is no shoulder or if the shoulder is determined to be less safe, a bus operator may load and unload a student while the bus is in a lane of traffic but only if the bus is in the lane farthest to the right side of the road so that there is not a lane of traffic between the bus and the right-side curb or other edge of the road.
(3) Prohibit a bus operator from loading or unloading a student in a location on a divided highway such that a student, in order to walk between the bus and his home or school, would be required to cross a roadway of the highway on which traffic is not controlled by the visual signals on the school bus.
Amended by Acts 1969, No. 143, §1; Acts 1975, No. 392, §1; Acts 1976, No. 281, §2; Acts 1977, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 18, §1; Acts 1979, No. 202, §1, eff. July 3, 1979; Acts 1980, No. 206, §1; Acts 1986, No. 1001, §1; Acts 1986, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 6, §1, eff. Dec. 24, 1986; Acts 1989, No. 10, §1; Acts 1992, No. 24, §1, eff. May 25, 1992; Acts 2010, No. 460, §1, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2010, No. 750, §1, eff. June 29, 1010; Acts 2012, No. 2, §1; Acts 2012, No. 672, §1; Acts 2014, No. 654, §1; Acts 2014, No. 811, §8, eff. June 23, 2014; Acts 2015, No. 421, §1, eff. July 1, 2015; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
NOTE: Section 2 of Acts 2010, No. 750, provides that the provisions of this Act shall supercede the provisions of Acts 2010, No. 460.