Texas Education Code Title 2, Chapter 34 - Transportation

• Texas Section 34.001 - Purchase Of Motor Vehicles
  (a) A school district may purchase school motor vehicles through the comptroller or through competitive bidding under Subchapter B, Chapter 44. (b) The comptroller may...
• Texas Section 34.002 - Safety Standards
  (a) The Department of Public Safety, with the advice of the Texas Education Agency, shall establish safety standards for school buses used to transport students...
• Texas Section 34.0021 - School Bus Emergency Evacuation Training
  (a) Pursuant to the safety standards established by the Department of Public Safety under Section 34.002, each school district may conduct a training session for...
• Texas Section 34.003 - Operation Of School Buses
  (a) School buses or mass transit authority motor buses shall be used for the transportation of students to and from schools on routes having 10...
• Texas Section 34.004 - Standing Children
  A school district may not require or allow a child to stand on a school bus or passenger van that is in motion. Added by...
• Texas Section 34.005 - Financing
  (a) A school district financially unable to immediately pay for a school motor vehicle, including a bus, bus body, or bus chassis, the district purchases...
• Texas Section 34.006 - Sale Of Buses
  (a) At the request of a school district, the comptroller shall dispose of a school bus. (b) A school district is not required to dispose...
• Texas Section 34.007 - Public School Transportation System
  (a) A board of county school trustees or a school district board of trustees may establish and operate an economical public school transportation system: (1)...
• Texas Section 34.008 - Contract With Transit Authority, Commercial Transportation Company, Or Juvenile Board
  (a) A board of county school trustees or school district board of trustees may contract with a mass transit authority, commercial transportation company, or juvenile...
• Texas Section 34.009 - Contracts For Use, Acquisition, Or Lease Of School Bus
  (a) As an alternative to purchasing a school bus, a board of county school trustees or school district board of trustees may contract with any...
• Texas Section 34.010 - Use Of School Buses For Extracurricular And Other School-related Activities
  (a) A school district board of trustees or board of county school trustees governing a countywide transportation system may contract with nonschool organizations for the...
• Texas Section 34.011 - Appeals
  A policy decision of a board of county school trustees or board of trustees of a school district affecting transportation is final and may not...
• Texas Section 34.012 - Three-point Seat Belt Instruction; Information Clearinghouse
  (a) The State Board of Education shall develop and make available to each school district a program of instruction in the proper use of a...
• Texas Section 34.013 - Bus Seat Belt Policy
  A school district shall require a student riding a bus operated by or contracted for operation by the district to wear a seat belt if...
• Texas Section 34.014 - Funding For Three-point Seat Belts
  (a) A person may offer to donate three-point seat belts or money for the purchase of three-point seat belts for a school district's school buses....
• Texas Section 34.015 - Reporting Of Bus Accidents
  (a) In this section, "bus" means a bus operated by or contracted for use by a school district to transport schoolchildren. (b) A school district...

Last modified: September 28, 2016