Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 92, Pages 4455-4526, December 11, 1979 Page: 4,490
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Program Committee and the legislature in the General Ap-
propriations Act.
.060. Contract with Public Transportation Company.
(a) Policy. Funds may be allocated to transportation
units which have, with the approval of the State Board of
Education, contracted all or part of their transportation ser-
vices to a public transportation company.
(b) Administrative procedure. The Foundation School
Program transportation allotment will be computed from the
annual transportation report under the regular transporta-
tion formula.
.070. Transportation for Handicapped Students.
(a) Policy. The commissioner of education may allo-
cate funds for the transportation of handicapped students as
specified by law (Handicapped Students Eligibility, Policy
34.62; Child-Centered Educational Process, Policy and Ad-
ministrative Procedure 35.72.060).
(b) Administrative procedure.
(1) A school district that provides special transporta-
tion services for eligible handicapped students is entitled to a
state allocation. Allocations for handicapped transportation
in district- or county-operated school buses shall be paid on
the previous year's cost per mile. For the 1979-80 and
1980-81 school years, the maximum allowable per-mile cost
will be $ .80. For the 1981-82 and 1982-83 school years and
thereafter, the maximum rate per-mile allowable shall be
recalculated based on data gathered from the first year of
each preceding biennium. Districts may use a portion of
their support allocation to pay transportation costs, if necess-
ary.
(2) The commissioner of education may grant an
amount not to exceed $ .18 per mile or a maximum of $600
per student per year for private transportation to reimburse
parents or their agents for transporting eligible handicapped
students. For the 1981-82 and 1982-83 school years and
thereafter, the rate per mile and the maximum allowable per
student will be determined by the commissioner of education
for consideration by the Foundation School Program Commit-
tee and the legislature in the General Appropriations Act.
The mileage allowed shall be computed along the shortest
public road from the student's home to school and back,
morning and afternoon. The need for this type transporta-
tion shall be determined on an individual basis and shall be
approved only in extreme hardship cases.
(3) Districts serving eligible handicapped students
who ride the bus during the fourth quarter of the 1979-80
school year shall submit a supplement to the final application
requesting funds prior to July 1, 1980.
(4) Funds appropriated may be used only for the
transportation of handicapped students and must be properly
accounted for in the fiscal records of the transporting unit.
.080. Transportation for Vocational Education Students.
(a) Policy. The commissioner of education shall reim-
burse school districts for the transportation of vocational
education students based on the number of actual miles tra-
veled times the district's official extracurricular travel-per-
mile rate as set by their local board of trustees and approved
by the commissioner of education.
(b) Administrative procedure.
(1) (No change.)
(2) Each approved bus route serving students
enrolled in an approved vocational program is subject to
survey by the Texas Education Agency.(3) A separate application is made for the reimburse-
ment of funds.
(4) The Texas Education Agency shall reimburse the
district based on the number of miles required to transport
students from the home campus to the vocational campus
and return times the district's official extracurricular travel-
per-mile rate as set by the local board of trustees and ap-
proved by the Texas Education Agency.
.090. Transportation for Children Enrolled in Required
Statewide Bilingual Education Programs.
(a) Policy. Each school district operating an approved
program of bilingual education for children of limited
English-speaking ability shall be reimbursed for the cost of
transporting eligible students from one campus to another
within a district or from one district to another when the
home district does not offer a bilingual education program.
(b) Administrative procedure. The procedures by
which funds are allocated for the transportation of eligible
bilingual education students are:
(l)-(3) (No change.)
(4) The Texas Education Agency shall reimburse the
district based on the number of miles required to transport
students from the home campus to the bilingual campus and
return times the district's official extracurricular travel-per-
mile rate as set by the local board of trustees and approved by
the Texas Education Agency.
Doc. No. 799144
226.41.07.100
The Texas Education Agency has repealed Rule
226.41.07.100 concerning old age and survivors insurance fot
bus drivers. Previously, the employer's portion of this in-
surance was paid to county school superintendents' offices.
The state no longer provides funds for the offices of county
school superintendents. Therefore, the rule has been
repealed.
Public review and discussion of the proposed repeal were
held.
This repeal is effected under the authority of Section 16.005,
Texas Education Code.
Issued in Austin, Texas, on November 30, 1979.Doc. No. 799145
A. O. Bowen
Commissioner of EducationEffective Date: December 21, 1979
Proposal Publication Date: September 25, 1979
For further Information, please call (512) 475-7077.S I.
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