GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 1048

Short Title:  Busing for Children in K-5.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Wood; and H. Hunter.
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Referred to:  Education.
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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE BUSING FOR  ALL CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 5, REGARDLESS OF HOW CLOSE THEY LIVE TO THEIR SCHOOLS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-242(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4)	A local board of education that elects to operate a school bus transportation system shall not be required to provide transportation for any school employee, nor shall the board be required to provide transportation for any pupil in grades 6 through 12 living within one and one half miles of the school in which the pupil is enrolled."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 115C-246(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Unless road or other conditions shall make it inadvisable to do so, public school buses shall be so routed on State-maintained highways that the school bus to which a pupil is assigned shall pass within one mile of the residence of each pupil in grades 6 through 12 who lives one and one half miles or more from the school to which the pupil is assigned and within one mile of the residence of each pupil in grades kindergarten through 5."
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.