S. 3590 · 110th Congress
Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act of 2008
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Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide grants, on a competitive basis, to rural local educational agencies (LEAs) to pay the federal share (75%) of costs of purchasing new school buses.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Sep 25, 2008
Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide grants, on a competitive basis, to rural local educational agencies (LEAs) to pay the federal share (75%) of costs of purchasing new school buses.
Requires the Secretary, in providing such grants, to give priority to rural LEAs that: (1) are transporting students in a bus manufactured before 1977; (2) have a strained fleet of school buses; or (3) serve a school required by law to provide transportation to students to enable them to transfer to another public school served by the rural LEA.
Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 5% of formula grants for non-urbanized areas to carry out this Act.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Bus Utility and Safety in School Transportation Opportunity and Purchasing Act of 2008
Latest action (Sep 25, 2008): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9503)
Policy area: Education · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Sep 25, 2008
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.