HB2556 - Tennessee - School Transportation

Companion Bill SB3081. School Transportation - Requires state funds pay for transportation for students living within one and one-half miles from a public school in which such students are enrolled if there are special hazard zones present as identified from an engineering and traffic investigation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21. Fiscal Summary for *HB2556 / SB3081Increase State Expenditures - $6,737,000 Increase Local Expenditures* - $21,400,000/One-Time $5,610,000/Net Recurring Bill Summary for *HB2556 / SB3081 Present law allows a board of education to provide school transportation facilities for a child who lives less than 1.5 miles from the nearest accessible route from the school in which that child is enrolled, but the county is not entitled to state transportation funds for any such student,[...]

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