S391 - Department of Transportation Omnibus. (SL 2025-47)
Session Year 2025
Overview: Section 12 of S.L. 2025-47 (Senate Bill 391) requires a criminal history check for an individual before a local board of education may allow the individual to act as a driver pursuant to a contract entered into by a local board of education with a person, firm, or corporation to provide transportation services to students in lieu of operating school buses. It also provides for sharing of information between school boards if one local school board has previously done a criminal history check on an individual, the check was done within the previous three years, and the individual consents.
This section became effective July 1, 2025, and applies to contracts for transportation services for students beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.