1997 Minnesota Statutes

     123.799 Student transportation safety. 

    Subdivision 1.    Reserved revenue use.  A district 
 shall use the student transportation safety reserved revenue 
 under section 124.225, subdivision 7f, for providing student 
 transportation safety programs to enhance student conduct and 
 safety on the bus or when boarding and exiting the bus.  A 
 district's student transportation policy must specify the 
 student transportation safety activities to be carried out under 
 this section.  A district's student transportation safety 
 reserved revenue may only be used for the following purposes: 

    (1) to provide paid adult bus monitors, including training 
 and salary costs; 

    (2) to provide a volunteer bus monitor program, including 
 training costs and the cost of a program coordinator; 

    (3) to purchase or lease optional external public address 
 systems or video recording cameras for use on buses; 

    (4) to purchase new or retrofit existing school buses with 
 seatbelts or other occupant restraint systems after consultation 
 with and approval by the commissioner of public safety; and 

    (5) other activities or equipment that have been approved 
 by the commissioner of public safety. 

    Subd. 2.    Reporting.  Districts shall annually report 
 expenditures from the student transportation safety reserved 
 revenue to the commissioner of children, families, and learning, 
 who shall provide the information to the school bus safety 
 advisory committee. 

    HIST: 1994 c 647 art 12 s 3; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1Sp1997 
 c 4 art 12 s 2