Students, certain; waiver to access student transportation in certain cases.
Summary
School boards; duties; student transportation in certain cases. Requires each school board that provides for the transportation of students and that has established a rule, regulation, or policy to exclude certain students who reside within a certain distance from the school at which they are enrolled from accessing such transportation to establish a process for waiving, on a case-by-case and space-available basis, such exclusion and providing transportation to any such student whose parent is unable to provide adequate transportation for his child to attend school because the parent is providing necessary medical care to another family member who resides in the same household, as evidenced by a written explanation submitted by a licensed health care provider who provides care to such family member.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Mar 31, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 28, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2020
How they voted
24–12
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 40
Feb 28, 2020
D
Democratic21
90% Yea
R
Republican19
63% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
10
Committee
12
Mar 31, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 576 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (24-Y 12-N 1-A)
upper
Feb 26, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N 1-A)
upper
Feb 20, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 20, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 3-N 1-A)
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 5, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1208H1
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20106640D-H1
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103654D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kathy Tran
DDemocratic
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