1997 Minnesota Code
Chapters 120 - 129B Education Code: Prekindergarten - Grade 12
Chapter 123 School Districts: Powers and Duties; Service Cooperatives
Section 123.799 Student transportation safety.

123.799 Student transportation safety.

Subdivision 1. Reserved revenue use. A district shall use the student transportation safety reserved revenue under section 124.225, subdivision 7f, for providing student transportation safety programs to enhance student conduct and safety on the bus or when boarding and exiting the bus. A district's student transportation policy must specify the student transportation safety activities to be carried out under this section. A district's student transportation safety reserved revenue may only be used for the following purposes:

(1) to provide paid adult bus monitors, including training and salary costs;

(2) to provide a volunteer bus monitor program, including training costs and the cost of a program coordinator;

(3) to purchase or lease optional external public address systems or video recording cameras for use on buses;

(4) to purchase new or retrofit existing school buses with seatbelts or other occupant restraint systems after consultation with and approval by the commissioner of public safety; and

(5) other activities or equipment that have been approved by the commissioner of public safety.

Subd. 2. Reporting. Districts shall annually report expenditures from the student transportation safety reserved revenue to the commissioner of children, families, and learning, who shall provide the information to the school bus safety advisory committee.

HIST: 1994 c 647 art 12 s 3; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 12 s 2