Texas State Health Plan: 1985, Appendix A Page: 7
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EXHIBIT 3
65th LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION
SCHOOL BUSES - USE FOR NONSCHOOL ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER 864
H.B. No. 884
An Act relating to the use of school buses for nonschool activities;
amending Section 16.204, Texas Education Code, as added.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Section 16.204. Texas Education Code, as added, is
amended(35) to read as follows:
"Sec. 16.204. Use of Buses for Extracurricular Activities, Etc.
"(a) The county school boards and the state commission of education
shall promulgate regulations in regard to the use of school buses, for
other than transporting eligible children to and from school. Under
rules and regulations of the State Board of Education, the appropriate
district allocation in the county transportation fund, when approved by
the county school board, or the district transportation fund, when ap-
proved by the board of trustees of the independent school district
operating its own transportation system, may be used for school bus
transportation of its pupils and necessary personnel on extracurricular
activities and field trips sponsored by the respective district.
"(b) Subject to the rules of the commissioner of education, a school
district or county school board governing a countywide transportation
system may contract with governmental agencies or nonprofit organiza-
tions for the use of school buses for the transportation of senior
citizens or handicapped persons."
Sec. 2. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition
of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative
public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is
hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and
after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed by the House on May 13, 1977, by a non-record vote; passed by
the Senate on May 27, 1977: Yeas 32, Nays 0.
Approved June 17, 1977.
Effective Aug. 29, 1977, 90 days after date of adjournment.
(35)V.T.C.A. Education Code. - 16.204.7
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