Haw. Code R. § 8-27-5 - Eligibility
(a) fare free riders shall include:
(1) Students who receive transportation under
the provisions of Hawaii administrative rules for students with
disabilities;
(2) Students who have
been identified on their application for transportation services as
homeless;
(3) Students who have
been identified on their application for transportation services as a foster
child. The foster parent shall provide a copy of a family court order or a
letter from a case worker on official department of human services letterhead
for verification purposes; or
(4)
Elementary students who reside a mile or more from school, and secondary
students who reside 1.5 miles or more from school, attend the school in their
public school attendance area, and are:
(A) A
member of a family receiving financial assistance pursuant to department of
human services administrative rules; or
(B) A member of a family which meets current
income poverty guidelines of the United States Department of Agriculture
criteria to receive free school lunch, or for schools that participate in the
federal Community Eligibility Provision program or other program that provides
all students with free lunch regardless of each individual family's income, a
family which has been certified eligible by the department of human services to
participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program;
(C) The fourth or more student of a family
and the first three students are paying the fare to and from school;
(D) Transferred to another school because of
a grade transfer from one school to another, but the student shall receive
transportation only for the time that the student would have been in the grade
which was transferred;
(E)
Transferred to another school because the school was consolidated, but the
student shall receive transportation only for the remaining number of years
that the student would have been in attendance at the school which was
consolidated;
(F) Required by the
department to attend a school other than the school in the student's public
school attendance area; or
(G)
Directed by the district to attend another school because the student's public
school attendance area was redefined (redistricted), but the student shall be
eligible to receive fare free transportation for only the time the student
would have been attending the school that was redistricted.
(b) Fare riders shall
include:
(1) Elementary students who reside a
mile or more from school, and secondary students who reside 1.5 miles or more
from school in their public school attendance area; or
(2) Elementary students not eligible for
transportation because they reside less than one mile from school or are on
geographic exception and secondary students not eligible for transportation
because they reside less than 1.5 miles from school or are on geographic
exception; provided there are unused seats on the bus and accommodation will
not result in additional cost to the State as determined by the
department.
(c) A mileage
transportation reimbursement may be made available to parents, guardians, or
designees at the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) standard mileage
reimbursement rate for Hawaii used in computing the value of business use of an
automobile. Future increases or decreases in the mileage reimbursement amount
shall be effective the first day of January after an IRS rate change.
Procedures relating to mileage transportation reimbursement have been developed
by the department.
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