September 6, 2016, Introduced by Senator COLBECK and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1321 (MCL 380.1321), as amended by 2008 PA 1.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1321. (1) Subject to the balance of Except as otherwise
provided
in this section, the if a board
of a school district
providing
provides transportation for its resident pupils, other
than students with a disability transported under article 3 or
other pupils who cannot safely walk to school, the school board
shall provide transportation to and from school for each resident
public
or nonpublic school pupil if all both of the following
requirements are met:
(a) The school district provides transportation for the
elementary school level, middle or junior high school level, or
high school level, as defined by the local school board, in which
the pupil is enrolled.
(b)
The pupil is a person for whom the school district is
eligible
to receive state school aid for transportation.
(b) (c)
The pupil is attending attends either
the public or
the nearest state approved nonpublic school in the school district
to which the pupil is eligible to be admitted.
(2) Transportation provided under subsection (1) shall be
without charge to the resident pupil, the parent, guardian, or
person standing in loco parentis to the pupil.
(3) A school district is not required to transport or pay for
transportation of a resident pupil living within 1-1/2 miles, by
the nearest traveled route, to the public or state approved
nonpublic school in which the pupil is enrolled. A school district
is not required to transport or pay for the transportation of a
resident pupil attending a nonpublic school who lives in an area
less than 1-1/2 miles from a public school in which public school
pupils
are not transported, except that the school district is
required
to shall transport or pay for the transportation of the
resident pupil from the public school within the area to the
nonpublic school the pupil attends.
(4) A school district is not required to transport or pay for
the transportation of resident pupils to state approved nonpublic
schools located outside the district unless the school district
transports some of its resident pupils, other than students with a
disability under article 3, to public schools located outside the
district, in which case the school district shall transport or pay
for the transportation of resident pupils attending a state
approved nonpublic school at least to the distance of the public
schools located outside the district to which the district
transports resident pupils and in the same general direction.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.