AB 2362: Pupil transportation.
- Session Year: 2025-2026
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2026-04-06
Current Status:
In Progress
(2026-04-15: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.)
Introduced
In Committee
First Chamber
In Committee
Second Chamber
Enacted
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school whenever, in the judgment of the governing board, the transportation is advisable and good reasons exist to do so. Existing law requires a driver employed by a local educational agency, contracted by a local educational agency, or contracted by any entity with funding from a local educational agency, who provides school-related pupil transportation for compensation to be subject to specified requirements including, among others, having a satisfactory driving record, as provided. Existing law exempts from these requirements a school employee when the employee provides transportation to pupils due to or because of the employees supervision of pupils for a field trip, extracurricular activity, or athletic program, or when the employee provides transportation to pupils for other activities, not to exceed 40 hours of drive time per school year per employee.
This bill would delete the 40 hours of drive time per school year limit for a school employee that transports pupils due to or because of the employees supervision of pupils for a field trip, extracurricular activity, or athletic program. The bill would maintain the 40 hours of drive time per school year limit for a school employee that transports pupils due to or because of the employees supervision of pupils for other activities, except that, would, for a local educational agency with fewer than 2,500 units of average daily attendance and a frontier school district, as defined, the bill would set that limit at 200 hours of drive time or such other amount as approved by the governing board or body of the local educational agency. time instead of 40 hours. The bill would, contingent upon an appropriation, establish the Rural Transportation Safety Grant Program to provide funding to small and rural local educational agencies for costs associated with training, inspections, and compliance with, among other things, the above-described driver requirements.