SF0647 - Minnesota: School bus equipment and student transportation modifications

Relating to school buses; allowing school districts to provide bus transportation along varying bus routes for early childhood family education (ECFE) participants; modifying student rider bus safety training requirements; allowing districts contracting for transportation an exemption from the standard cost allocation method for authorized and nonauthorized transportation categories under certain conditions; including multifunction school activity buses in the school bus definition and modifying types A and C school bus definitions, requiring multifunctional activity buses to meet federal safety standards; prohibiting drivers from operating buses while communicating on cellular (cell) phones; modifying the bus driver seat belt requirement; making conforming amendments; updating the applicable date for bus standards; modifying battery requirements, body standards, seat cushion requirements, class D drivers license endorsements [...]

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