A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT permitting the routing of school buses on certain streets designated as public.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑246(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Unless road or other conditions  make it  inadvisable, public school buses shall be  routed on state‑maintained  highways, municipal streets, or other streets with publicly dedicated right‑of‑way.  Each public school bus shall be routed so that the bus passes within one mile of the residence of each pupil assigned to that bus. A pupil who lives one and one-half miles or more from the school to which the pupil is assigned shall be eligible for school bus transportation."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.