1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to education; requiring a study on increasing 
  1.3             labor and fuel costs for pupil transportation. 
  1.4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.5      Section 1.  [TRANSPORTATION STUDY.] 
  1.6      The commissioner of children, families, and learning must 
  1.7   form a pupil transportation working group to analyze the effects 
  1.8   of increasing labor and fuel costs on school transportation 
  1.9   needs.  The commissioner must include recommendations for 
  1.10  adequate pupil transportation funding in the redesigned school 
  1.11  finance formulas presented to the 2001 legislature.