19 Tex. Admin. Code § 61.1016 - Hazardous Transportation Funding
(a)
General provisions. This section implements the Texas Education Code (TEC),
§48.151(d)-(d-2) (Transportation Allotment), which allows a school district to
apply for up to an additional 10% of its regular transportation allotment to be
used for the transportation of students living within two miles of the school
they attend who would be subject to hazardous traffic conditions or a high risk
of violence if they walked to school.
(b) Definitions. The following words and
terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1)
School district--For the purposes of this section, the definition of a school
district includes an open-enrollment charter school.
(2) Hazardous traffic condition--An area
within two miles of a campus where no walkway is provided and children must
walk along or cross a freeway or expressway, an underpass, an overpass or a
bridge, an uncontrolled major traffic artery, an industrial or commercial area,
or another comparable condition.
(3) Area presenting a high risk of
violence--An area within two miles of a campus that law enforcement records
indicate presents a high incidence of violent crimes.
(c) Eligibility. A school district or county
is eligible to report Hazardous Area Service Annual Mileage in the Foundation
School Program (FSP) Transportation application if the school district submits
to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) a policy adopted by the local board of
trustees that:
(1) explains the specific
hazardous traffic conditions or areas presenting high risk for violence that
apply to the district and exist within two miles of its campuses; and
(2) if a school district elects to implement
community walking transportation programs or innovative school safety projects,
requires such district-supported community walking transportation programs or
innovative school safety projects to:
(A)
utilize trained adults with current background checks to either walk students
to their home or school or to stand guard along safe routes; and
(B) provide financial reports to the district
each semester.
(d) Reporting. School districts are required
to submit a Hazardous Area Policy prior to the start of the school year and to
report annual Hazardous Area Service mileage by August 1 of each school year on
the Home-to-School/School-to-Home section of the FSP Transportation Route
Services Report. School districts requesting funds for an area presenting a
high risk of violence must provide to TEA, contemporaneously with the
explanation required by subsection (c) of this section, consolidated law
enforcement records that document violent crimes identified by reporting
agencies within the relevant jurisdiction.
(e) Funding formula. Funding for hazardous
traffic and high-risk-of-violence routes is limited to 10% of the district's
two or more mile only service. Hazardous transportation funding for students
riding the bus will be calculated at the standard rate for regular
transportation services. Funding for high-risk-of-violence walking areas will
be calculated at the regular route services rate of $1.00 per mile.
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