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LA Rev Stat § 17:491 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§491. Definitions

RS 491 - Definitions  A. As used in this Subpart, the term "school bus operator" means any employee of any city, parish, or other local public school board whose duty it is to transport students in any board school bus or activity bus to and from any school of suitable grade approved by the state Department of Education or to and from any school-related activity. Such employee shall be certified to have participated in any school bus operators instructional program or in-service training provided by the state Department of Education as provided for in R.S. 17:497.4, shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and shall be certified to have passed any physical examination required by the department. It shall be unlawful for anyone not certified as provided in this Subsection to transport school students to and from any such school.  B. Employees of city, parish, and other local public school boards who drive buses to colleges or universities may, at the discretion of the employing school board, be exempted from the age requirements provided by this Section but shall meet those age requirements provided in R.S. 17:160.  Amended by Acts 1960, No. 83, §1; Acts 1980, No. 408, §1; Acts 1981, No. 731, §1; Acts 2012, No. 704, §1, eff. June 11, 2012; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:491.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§491.1. Preemployment driving record examination

RS 491.1 - Preemployment driving record examination  A. Prior to any person becoming employed as a regular or substitute school bus operator for the first time, each city and parish school board shall examine the prospective employee's driving record for the five year period immediately preceding the date of employment. Such record must be acceptable according to standards developed jointly by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and approved and promulgated as a rule by the board. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall provide for the examination of driving records as provided in this Section. Any person whose driving record is found to be unacceptable shall not be employed as a school bus operator.  B. The standards referenced in Subsection A hereof shall be developed by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and approved and promulgated as a rule by each school board prior to January 1, 1989, and the provisions of this Section shall only be applicable with respect to persons hired as regular or substitute bus operators for the first time on and after January 1, 1989.  Acts 1988, No. 509, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:491.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§491.2. Limitations on driving privileges

RS 491.2 - Limitations on driving privileges A. Effective for the 1997-1998 school year and thereafter, each governing authority of a public elementary or secondary school shall prohibit a school bus operator who tests positive for the presence of marijuana, opioids, amphetamines, phencyclidine, or other controlled dangerous substance as defined in R.S. 40:961(7), or for whom testing indicates a blood alcohol level of .08 percent by weight or higher from driving a school or activity bus or from otherwise transporting students until the governing authority determines, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this Section, that the school bus operator may return to driving a school or activity bus. The provisions of this Subsection shall apply only to any test for blood alcohol level which is administered in the scope of or as a result of the operator's employment as a school bus operator. B. Each governing authority of a public elementary or secondary school shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this Section. Acts 1997, No. 1310, §1, eff. July 1, 1997.
LA Rev Stat § 17:491.3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§491.3. Reporting of certain arrests; requirements; failure to report

RS 491.3 - Reporting of certain arrests; requirements; failure to report A. Effective January 1, 2011, and thereafter, a school bus operator shall report his arrest for a violation of R.S. 14:98, 98.1, or any other law or ordinance that prohibits operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any abused substance or controlled dangerous substance set forth in the schedules provided in R.S. 40:964. B. The report required by Subsection A of this Section shall be made by the operator to a person or persons as specified by the governing authority of the school in rules and regulations required by this Section. Such report shall be made within twenty-four hours of the arrest or prior to the operator next reporting for his work assignment as a school bus operator, whichever time period is shorter. Such report shall be made by the school bus operator regardless of who owns or leases the vehicle being driven by the operator at the time of the offense for which he was arrested and regardless of whether the operator was performing an official duty or responsibility as a school bus operator at the time of the offense. C. The provisions of this Section shall apply to an arrest occurring after December 31, 2010, for a violation as specified in Subsection A of this Section. D.(1) A school bus operator who fails to comply with the provisions of this Section shall be terminated by the governing authority employing the operator if such operator is serving a probationary term of employment as provided by R.S. 17:492 or if the provisions of law relative to probation and tenure of bus operators are not applicable to the operator. (2) A school bus operator employed by a city, parish, or other local public school board who is a regular and permanent employee of the board as provided by R.S. 17:492 shall be subject to removal as provided by R.S. 17:493 for failure to comply with the provisions of this Section. Written and signed charges alleging such failure shall be brought against the bus operator. E. The governing authority of each public elementary or secondary school, by not later than October 1, 2010, shall adopt rules, regulations, and procedures necessary to administer the provisions of this Section. Such rules, regulations, and procedures shall be consistent with the provisions of this Section. F. For the purposes of this Section, "school bus operator" means any employee of a city, parish, or other local public school board or other governing authority of a public elementary or secondary school whose duty it is to transport students in any school bus or activity bus to and from a school approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education or to and from any school-related activity. Acts 2010, No. 533, §1, eff. June 24, 2010.
LA Rev Stat § 17:493.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§493.1. Filling route vacancies

RS 493.1 - Filling route vacancies  A.(1)(a) Whenever a school bus operator is needed to drive a new route or a route vacated by a previous operator, the school bus operator who is tenured and has acquired the greatest seniority shall be offered the opportunity to and may change from driving his route to the vacant route before another operator is selected. The city, parish, or other local public school board shall notify such school bus operator of the route vacancy by mail to his residence.  (b) If the tenured bus operator with the greatest seniority chooses not to change to the vacant route, the route shall then be offered in order of seniority to a school bus operator who has acquired tenure.  (c) If no tenured operator chooses to change to the vacant route, the route shall then be offered to a full-time probationary bus operator.  (d) If no regular bus operator, tenured or probationary, chooses to change to the vacant route, then a substitute bus operator shall be selected for the position from a list of approved substitute school bus operators.  (2) If a regular bus operator chooses to change routes as provided in this Section, then his vacant route shall be filled using the process described in this Subsection.  B. A substitute operator shall not be used to fill a route vacancy except as provided in R.S. 17:500(C)(2)(b) and (c).  C. Only if a city or parish school board is required, in filling a vacant route pursuant to Subsection A of this Section, to bear an increase in unreimbursed costs for nonpassenger miles over those attributable to the previous operator who vacated the route, may a school system select an operator to fill the vacant route on a different basis.  D. Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, whenever a school bus operator owning his own bus retires, a route shall be offered first to any person meeting the requirements of the school board who is willing to acquire the bus of the retiring operator by a method which guarantees that the operator receives full appraised value for his bus using regularly accepted appraisal methods to determine fair market value. The provisions of this Subsection shall be applicable only when the bus owned by the retiring operator has been manufactured within a period of five years immediately prior to the operator's retirement and the operator is retiring due to a documented physical disability.  Acts 1986, No. 117, §1; Acts 1992, No. 180, §1; Acts 1993, No. 826, §1, eff. June 22, 1993; Acts 1995, No. 948, §1; Acts 1997, No. 551, §1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1; Acts 2018, No. 699, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:494 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§494. Rules and regulations impairing provisions prohibited

RS 494 - Rules and regulations impairing provisions prohibited  Nothing contained in the Revised Statutes of Louisiana shall be construed as conferring upon any parish school board the authority to make rules and regulations which may impair or nullify the provisions of this Sub-part.
LA Rev Stat § 17:495 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§495. Establishment of minimum salary schedules

RS 495 - Establishment of minimum salary schedules  The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a minimum salary schedule to be paid school bus operators in the public schools of the state of Louisiana and to maintain a minimum rate of compensation to be paid for the operation of school busses in the public school system of the state of Louisiana.  Added by Acts 1954, No. 74, §1. Amended by Acts 1955, No. 57, §1; Acts 1955, No. 58, §1; Acts 1956, No. 112, §1; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:496 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§496. Minimum salaries

RS 496 - Minimum salaries   A. All school bus operators in the public schools of the state of Louisiana driving buses fourteen feet or longer in length shall receive minimum salaries on a nine-month basis of six thousand nine hundred sixty-five dollars and sixty cents.  B. Operators of school buses having a length of less than fourteen feet and drivers of station wagons or carryalls, which are used to transport sixteen or more special education students, shall receive minimum salaries on a nine-month basis of five thousand eight hundred fifty-three dollars and eighty-six cents.  C. The salaries of operators of vehicles used solely on feeder routes shall not be governed by the provisions of this Subpart but shall be fixed by the various school boards and the provisions of R.S. 17:497 shall not be applicable to such operations.  D. These minimum rates shall not apply to salaries paid student operators in those systems which in 1955-1956 or thereafter employed student operators. Any such systems shall receive actual expenses as reimbursement, provided the base pay does not exceed the rates stipulated herein. The term "student operator" means an operator of a school bus who is attending a public school in the state of Louisiana, other than colleges, trade schools, and universities.  E. For the purpose of receiving state reimbursement for actual expenses under the provisions of this Section, all buses which have a capacity to transport sixteen or more students under the provisions of R.S. 17:1941 et seq. and which meet federal and state requirements, shall be considered as buses fourteen feet or longer in length.  F. The minimum salaries established in this Section shall be paid separately from any reimbursement for the minimum rate of operation provided in R.S. 17:497.  Added by Acts 1954, No. 74, §2. Amended by Acts 1955, No. 57, §1; Acts 1955, No. 58, §1; Acts 1956, No. 112, §1; Acts 1964, Ex.Sess., No. 27, §1; Acts 1968, No. 397, §3; Acts 1970, No. 625, §1; Acts 1975, No. 736, §1; Acts 1976, No. 291, §1; Acts 1979, No. 259, §1, eff. July 10, 1979; Acts 1980, No. 383, §1; Acts 1982, No. 254, §1, eff. July 1, 1982; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:496.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§496.1. Minimum salaries

RS 496.1 - Minimum salaries  Any person who operates a school bus for the fall and spring semesters of a state university, college, or junior college for the transportation of students attending such university, college, or junior college as provided in R.S. 17:3381, shall be entitled to and shall receive for such operation the entire minimum salary provided by R.S. 17:496; provided further, however, that any person who operates a school bus providing such transportation during any summer semester shall be entitled to and shall receive a proportionate amount of the minimum salary provided by R.S. 17:496 for each day of actual operation of a bus during any summer semester, to be calculated by dividing the total minimum salary for fall and spring semesters by one hundred eighty, multiplied by the number of days of actual operation.  Added by Acts 1979, No. 552, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:497.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§497.1. Operation compensation for certain school bus operators

RS 497.1 - Operation compensation for certain school bus operators  No school bus operator shall have his total compensation for the operation of a school bus received in accordance with R.S. 17:497 reduced for any school year within a five-year period because his route is altered or changed pursuant to or as a result of a court order or other order or plan necessarily implemented to comply with any provisions of law or court decisions relating to the bussing of school children in the public schools. For a five-year period extending from the effective date of such alteration or change in route, any such school bus operator so affected shall receive, in lieu of compensation as provided in R.S. 17:497, compensation for the operation of a school bus that is equal to the average compensation received during the three immediately preceding school years, or the reduced compensation computed under the provisions of R.S. 17:497, whichever is greater, provided however that the provisions of this section shall apply in St. Landry Parish only.  The provisions of this section shall apply only when the school bus operator is the owner of the school bus.  Added by Acts 1970, No. 333, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:497.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§497.2. Remuneration for participation in in-service training programs

RS 497.2 - Remuneration for participation in in-service training programs  Any school bus operator who participates in the school bus operator's instructional program provided through the state Department of Education shall receive as remuneration the sum of six dollars for each hour of instruction in such program, not to exceed forty-eight dollars per school year.  Added by Acts 1978, No. 37, §2. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 408, §1; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:497.3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§497.3. In-service training; schedule

RS 497.3 - In-service training; schedule  A. The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt a policy providing for the scheduling of in-service training for school bus operators.  B. The schedule shall provide that all school bus operators, including any school board employee who drives a bus on an occasional basis to transport students to and from school activities, shall attend in-service training not more frequently than once every other school year.  C. A city or parish school board shall have authority to provide in-service training for school bus operators on a more frequent basis than established by the policy of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education when such training is at no expense to the state.  Acts 1986, No. 284, §1, eff. June 30, 1986; Acts 1987, No. 315, §1, eff. July 6, 1987; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:497.4 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§497.4. Training and certification; school bus operators; training sessions

RS 497.4 - Training and certification; school bus operators; training sessions Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the state Department of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, shall develop and implement a program for the training and certification of school bus operators for the purpose of increasing the number of certified school bus operators in the state. The program shall include training sessions of at least two days each to be held throughout the state which shall be conducted by certified instructors as selected by the department. The number, dates, frequency, and locations of such training sessions shall be determined by the department which shall be responsible for disseminating all information relative to such training sessions to each city and parish school system, in a timely fashion. Acts 1999, No. 377, §1, eff. June 16, 1999.
LA Rev Stat § 17:498 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§498. Ownership of bus; determination of salary

RS 498 - Ownership of bus; determination of salary  Where the operator of a school bus is the owner thereof, he shall be paid by voucher-check stating the amount of the minimum salary as set out in R.S. 17:496 and the full amount of reimbursement for operation as set out in R.S. 17:497. Where the school bus is jointly owned by the operator and the school board, they shall share in the ratio of their investment and expense to the amounts as set out in the schedule in R.S. 17:497.  Added by Acts 1954, No. 74, §4. Amended by Acts 1955, No. 57, §1; Acts 1955, No. 58, §1; Acts 1956, No. 112, §1; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:499 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§499. Insufficiency of appropriation; effect

RS 499 - Insufficiency of appropriation; effect  This schedule shall become effective only as sufficient funds are appropriated by the Legislature to put it into effect; if the funds appropriated by the Legislature are insufficient to fully comply with this Subpart, the minimum compensation herein provided shall be reduced proportionately; however, no school bus operator in the public school system of the state of Louisiana shall receive or be paid less during 1964-1965 nor during any subsequent year while this schedule is in effect than the amount paid to or received by him during the 1963-1964 school year for nine months' work, except as to student operators, and also except where the length of the route of any such operator in 1964-1965 or any subsequent year is less than the length of the route of such operator during 1963-1964, in which event the reduction in total compensation shall not exceed the reduction in the amount to be reimbursed the school board, out of state funds, for the operation of said route brought about by the reduction in the length of the route.  Added by Acts 1954, No. 74, §5. Amended by Acts 1955, No. 57, §1; Acts 1955, No. 58, §1; Acts 1956, No. 112, §1; Acts 1964, Ex.Sess., No. 27, §1; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:499.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§499.1. Minimum salaries; exceptions

RS 499.1 - Minimum salaries; exceptions  No school bus operator in the public school system of the state of Louisiana shall receive or be paid less during 1964-65 nor during any subsequent year, until otherwise provided by law, than the amount paid to or received by him during the 1963-64 school year for nine months' work, except as to student operators, and also except where the length of the route of any such operators in 1964-65 or any subsequent year is less than the length of the route of such operator during 1963-64, in which event the reduction in total compensation shall not exceed the reduction in the amount to be reimbursed the school board, out of state funds, for the operation of said route brought about by the reduction in the length of the route.  Added by Acts 1964, No. 320, §1; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:500.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§500.1. School bus operators; sick leave

RS 500.1 - School bus operators; sick leave   A. A school bus operator as defined in R.S. 17:500 who is injured in his official capacity as a result of physical assault and battery by any student or person and is disabled as a result of such injury and cannot perform his functions as a school bus operator, shall receive sick leave without reduction in pay while disabled as a result of such injury. If a school bus operator is absent for six or more consecutive days as a result of such disability, he shall be required to present a certificate from a physician certifying the disability. The sick leave authorized by this Section shall be in addition to all other sick leave authorized by R.S. 17:500, provided that additional sick leave for disability as a result of physical assault and battery shall not be accumulated from year to year, nor shall such additional sick leave be compensated for at death or retirement, or compensated for in any other manner except as authorized in this Section.  B. At any time during the period of certified disability, if the school board questions the validity of the physician certification, the board may require the school bus operator to be examined by a physician selected by the board. In such a case, the board shall pay all costs of the examination and any tests determined to be necessary. If the physician selected by the board certifies the disability, the leave shall be granted or continued as appropriate. If the physician selected by the board disagrees with the certification of the physician selected by the school bus operator, the board may require the school bus operator to be examined by a third physician whose name appears next in the rotation of physicians on a list established by the local or state medical society for such purpose and maintained by the board. All costs of an examination and any tests required by a third physician shall be paid by the board. The opinion of the third physician shall be determinative of the issue.  C. (1) The school board shall not reduce the pay or accrued sick leave of a school bus operator who is absent from his duties to seek medical attention or treatment as a result of an injury as provided in this Section.  (2) If the school bus operator's physician determines that he is able to return to active service as a school bus operator with restrictions and the board does not allow the school bus operator to return to active service as a school bus operator subject to those restrictions, then the school bus operator's leave shall be granted or continued, as appropriate, as provided in this Section.  D. As used in this Section, "disabled" or "disability" means unable to or the inability to perform the essential functions of the job of a school bus operator.  Added by Acts 1976, No. 501, §1; Acts 2017, No. 227, §1.