(a) "Board" or "board of education" means the board of education of any school district.
(b) "School district" means any unified school district organized and operating under the laws of this state.
(c) The words "provide or furnish transportation" in addition to their ordinary meaning shall mean and include the right of a school district to: (1) Purchase, operate and maintain school buses and other motor vehicles; (2) contract, lease or hire school buses and other motor vehicles for the transportation of pupils, students and school personnel; (3) purchase, operate and maintain buses other than school buses for the transportation of pupils, students or school personnel to or from school-related functions or activities; (4) contract, lease or hire buses other than school buses for the transportation of pupils, students and school personnel if the buses are owned and operated by a public common carrier of passengers under a certificate of convenience and necessity granted by the state corporation commission or the interstate commerce commission and are operating within the authority granted to the public common carrier; and (5) reimburse persons who furnish transportation to pupils, students or school personnel in privately owned motor vehicles.
(d) "Student" or "pupil" means any person regularly enrolled in a school district and attending school in such school district or regularly enrolled in a school district and attending school in another school district in accordance with the provisions of an agreement entered into under authority of K.S.A. 72-8233, and amendments thereto.
(e) "Motor vehicle" means every motor vehicle, as defined in K.S.A. 8-126, and amendments thereto, which is designed for transporting 10 passengers or less.
(f) "Bus" means every motor vehicle, as defined in K.S.A. 8-126, and amendments thereto, which is designed for transporting more than 10 passengers in addition to the driver.
(g) "School bus" means: (1) Every bus designed primarily for the transportation of pupils, students or school personnel to or from school or to or from school-related functions or activities. This definition includes every such bus which is owned by a school district, or privately owned and contracted for, leased or hired by a school district, and operated for such transportation, and every such bus which is privately owned and operated for such transportation, but does not include within its meaning any bus designated in clauses (3) and (4) of subsection (c); and (2) every bus designed for operation as a common carrier in urban transportation. This definition includes every such bus which is owned and operated for mass public transportation by a metropolitan transit authority established under the provisions of article 28 of chapter 12 or article 31 of chapter 13 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and is contracted for, leased or hired by a school district for the transportation of pupils, students or school personnel to or from school or to or from school-related functions or activities.
(h) "State board" means the state board of education.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 40, § 2; L. 1978, ch. 303, § 2; L. 1984, ch. 261, § 16; L. 1991, ch. 220, § 6; L. 1997, ch. 183, § 1; L. 2001, ch. 142, § 2; July 1.
(b) (1) When any or all of the conditions specified in this provision exist, the board of education of a school district shall provide or furnish transportation for pupils who reside in the school district and who attend any school of the school district or who attend any school of another school district in accordance with the provisions of an agreement entered into under authority of K.S.A. 72-8233, and amendments thereto. The conditions which apply to the requirements of this provision are as follows:
(A) The residence of the pupil is inside or outside the corporate limits of a city, the school building attended is outside the corporate limits of a city and the school building attended is more than 2½ miles by the usually traveled road from the residence of the pupil; or
(B) the residence of the pupil is outside the corporate limits of a city, the school building attended is inside the corporate limits of a city and the school building attended is more than 2½ miles by the usually traveled road from the residence of the pupil; or
(C) the residence of the pupil is inside the corporate limits of one city, the school building attended is inside the corporate limits of a different city and the school building attended is more than 2½ miles by the usually traveled road from the residence of the pupil.
(2) The provisions of this subsection are subject to the provisions of subsections (c) and (d).
(c) The board of education of every school district is authorized to adopt rules and regulations to govern the conduct, control and discipline of all pupils while being transported in school buses. The board may suspend or revoke the transportation privilege or entitlement of any pupil who violates any rules and regulations adopted by the board under authority of this subsection.
(d) The board of education of every school district may suspend or revoke the transportation privilege or entitlement of any pupil who is detained at school at the conclusion of the school day for violation of any rules and regulations governing pupil conduct or for disobedience of an order of a teacher or other school authority. Suspension or revocation of the transportation privilege or entitlement of any pupil specified in this subsection shall be limited to the school day or days on which the pupil is detained at school. The provisions of this subsection do not apply to any pupil who has been determined to be an exceptional child, except gifted children, under the provisions of the special education for exceptional children act.
(e) (1) Subject to the limitations specified in this subsection, the board of education of any school district may prescribe and collect fees to offset, totally or in part, the costs incurred for the provision or furnishing of transportation for pupils. The limitations which apply to the authorization granted by this subsection are as follows:
(A) Fees for the provision or furnishing of transportation for pupils shall be prescribed and collected only to recover the costs incurred as a result of and directly attributable to the provision or furnishing of transportation for pupils and only to the extent that such costs are not reimbursed from any other source provided by law;
(B) fees for the provision or furnishing of transportation may not be assessed against or collected from any pupil who is counted in determining the transportation weighting of the school district under the provisions of the school district finance and quality performance act or any pupil who is determined to be a child with disabilities under the provisions of the special education for exceptional children act or any pupil who is eligible for free or reduced price meals under the national school lunch act or any pupil who is entitled to transportation under the provisions of subsection (a) of K.S.A. 72-8306, and amendments thereto, and who resides 2½ miles or more by the regular route of a school bus from the school attended;
(C) fees for the provision or furnishing of transportation for pupils in accordance with the provisions of an agreement entered into under authority of K.S.A. 72-8233 or 72-8307, and amendments thereto, shall be controlled by the provisions of the agreement.
(2) All moneys received by a school district from fees collected under this subsection shall be deposited in the general fund of the district.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 2; L. 1971, ch. 244, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 299, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 322, § 1; L. 1977, ch. 259, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 224, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 294, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 261, § 17; L. 1984, ch. 270, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 262, § 5; L. 1996, ch. 141, § 3; L. 1997, ch. 183, § 3; L. 2000, ch. 155, § 4; L. 2003, ch. 116, § 12; July 1.
(b) For the purposes of this section, the term regular school route includes any route arranged by the board of education for (1) transportation of its pupils to and from the residence of such pupils in another school district in accordance with an order issued by a board of education under the provisions of K.S.A. 72-1046b, and amendments thereto; and (2) transportation of its pupils to and from any school attended in another school district in accordance with the provisions of an agreement entered into under authority of K.S.A. 72-8233, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 3; L. 1978, ch. 303, § 3; L. 1984, ch. 261, § 18; L. 1997, ch. 183, § 4; L. 1999, ch. 20, § 2; L. 2000, ch. 155, § 2; L. 2001, ch. 22, § 2; July 1.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 4; L. 1973, ch. 300, § 1; July 1.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 5; L. 1971, ch. 245, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 302, § 1; July 1.
(b) Whenever any school district shall provide or furnish transportation under authority of article 83 of chapter 72 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated for pupils attending the public schools, it may provide or furnish transportation for pupils residing in the district and attending private or parochial schools of elementary or high school grades which are accredited by the state board of education to such extent and upon such conditions as the school district shall deem appropriate. The authorization contained in this subsection (b) shall be in addition to the requirement provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Whenever any school district shall provide or furnish transportation under authority of this section for pupils attending private or parochial schools, such transportation shall be provided or furnished to such pupils under the same terms and conditions as are imposed upon pupils attending the public schools.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 6; L. 1978, ch. 304, § 1; July 1.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 7; July 1.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 8; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 235; L. 1978, ch. 303, § 4; L. 1994, ch. 201, § 7; July 1.
(b) A school district may transport a nonresident pupil or student if such pupil or student boards the school bus within the boundaries or on the boundary of the transporting school district. To the extent that the provisions of this subsection conflict with the provisions of subsection (a), the provisions of subsection (a) shall control.
(c) No pupil or student who is furnished or provided transportation by a school district which is not the school district in which the pupil or student resides shall be counted in the computation of the school district's transportation weighting under article 64 of chapter 72 of Kansas Statutes Annotated.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 9; L. 1980, ch. 225, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 261, § 19; L. 1984, ch. 262, § 6; L. 1997, ch. 183, § 5; L. 1999, ch. 20, § 3; L. 2000, ch. 155, § 3; L. 2001, ch. 22, § 3; July 1.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, §§ 11, 12; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 292, § 56; June 1.
History: L. 1968, ch. 401, § 13; July 1.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a), shall not apply to a bus being used as a church bus or day care program bus, as defined in K.S.A. 8-1730a, and amendments thereto.
(c) Any not-for-profit organization, purchasing a used school bus under subsection (a), shall not be required to repaint such bus.
History: L. 1968, ch. 88, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 33, § 11; L. 1978, ch. 40, § 2; L. 1980, ch. 43, § 4; L. 2001, ch. 142, § 3; July 1.
History: L. 1968, ch. 88, § 2; July 1.
History: L. 1972, ch. 283, § 1; Repealed, L. 1976, ch. 40, § 12; July 1.
(1) (A) Transporting parents and other adults to or from school-related functions or activities, (B) transporting pupils to or from functions or activities sponsored by organizations, the membership of which is principally composed of children of school age, and (C) transporting persons engaged in field trips in connection with their participation in an adult education program maintained by the transporting school district or by any other school district, within or outside the boundaries of the transporting school district; and
(2) contracting with (A) the governing body of any township, city or county for transportation of individuals, groups or organizations, (B) the governing authority of any nonpublic school for transportation of pupils attending such nonpublic school to or from interschool or intraschool functions or activities, (C) the board of trustees of any community college for transportation of students enrolled in such community college to or from attendance at class at the community college or to and from functions or activities of the community college, (D) a public recreation commission established and operated under the laws of this state, for any purposes related to the operation of the recreation commission and all programs and services thereof, (E) the board of education of any other school district for transportation, on a cooperative and shared-cost basis, of pupils, school personnel, parents and other adults to or from school-related functions or activities, or (F) a four-year college or university, area vocational school or area vocational-technical school for transportation of students to or from attendance at class at the four-year college or university, area vocational school or area vocational-technical school or for transportation of students, alumni and other members of the public to or from functions or activities of the four-year college or university, area vocational school or area vocational-technical school.
(b) The costs related to the use of school buses under authority of this section shall not be considered in determining the transportation weighting of a school district under article 64 of chapter 72 of Kansas Statutes Annotated.
(c) Transportation fees may be charged by the board to offset, totally or in part, the costs incurred for the use of school buses under authority of this section.
(d) Any revenues received by a board of education as transportation fees or under any contract entered into pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the district and shall be considered reimbursements to the district for the purpose of the school district finance and quality performance act. Such revenues may be expended whether the same have been budgeted or not.
(e) The provisions of subsection (c) of K.S.A. 8-1556, and amendments thereto, apply to the use of school buses under authority of this section.
History: L. 1984, ch. 270, § 2; L. 1993, ch. 264, § 6; L. 1995, ch. 237, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 133, § 1; L. 2003, ch. 116, § 13; July 1.
(b) Fees for the furnishing of transportation for adult students pursuant to a policy adopted under authority of this section may be charged such adult students to offset, totally or in part, any costs incurred by a school district in the furnishing of such transportation, or such transportation may be furnished free of charge. Any revenues received by a board of education as fees charged adult students for transportation furnished under authority of this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the district and may be expended whether the same have been budgeted or not.
History: L. 1997, ch. 133, § 2; L. 2003, ch. 116, § 14; July 1.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), any school district or nonpublic school which has purchased and has placed into operation prior to July 1, 2001, any motor vehicles designed for transporting more than 10 passengers, but less than 15 passengers, and is not a school bus, may continue to operate such motor vehicles for the purpose of transporting students until July 1, 2005.
History: L. 2001, ch. 142, § 1; July 1.