Providing for a work group, study, and report on hiring practices, recruitment, and background checks for employment of school bus drivers, and including effective date provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2020
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 29, 2020
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill requires the department of education to convene and provide administrative support to a work group to study hiring practices, recruitment, and background checks for employment of school bus drivers. The bill establishes the membership of the work group, including ex officio, nonvoting legislative members. The work group shall submit its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, in a report to the general assembly, the governor, and the state board of education by November 20, 2020. The bill takes effect upon enactment.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named January 29, 2020. On February 6, 2020 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Norlin G. Mommsen REmail
• Rep. Lindsay James DEmail
• Rep. Sandy Salmon REmail

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