Senate Bill No. 703

(By Senators Plymale, Hunter, Edgell, Stollings and White)

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[Introduced February 19, 2007; referred to the Committee on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9D-20, relating to prohibiting the School Building Authority from funding any new construction that would result in the bus travel times of students in grades prekindergarten through five exceeding thirty minutes.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9D-20, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9D. SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY.
§18-9D-20. Certain new construction funding prohibited.

Effective the first day of July, two thousand seven, the School Building Authority may not fund any new construction project that would result in the bus travel times of students in grades pre-kindergarten through five exceeding thirty minutes.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
prohibit the School Building Authority from funding any new construction that would result in the bus travel times of students in grades pre-kindergarten through five exceeding thirty minutes.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.