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Innovative alternative school transportation; school boards to implement low/no-cost alternatives.

It became law on Apr 5, 2024.

VA HB 937 · House Bill · 2024

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What it does

School boards; state funding for public education;student transportation; innovative alternatives to school buses.Provides that no school board that implements innovative low-costor no-cost alternatives to transporting students to and from schoolon school buses, including organizing or otherwise facilitating,encouraging, or supporting bike buses whereby groups of studentsride bicycles to and from school, shall be penalized in the calculationof the prevailing costs of student transportation for the purposeof providing state funding to support the cost of public education.

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This bill passed and is now law.

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    Apr 5, 2024

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Law in Virginia. Agencies now write the rules that carry it out, and courts can stay or strike it.

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