(B) The State may assume the obligation of transporting students living within one and onehalf miles of their schools and who reside within threetenths of a mile walking distance of their residences when it is for the health and safety of the students where when hazardous traffic conditions are involved, provided funds are appropriated annually by the General Assembly for this purpose. In these cases, the local school district shall apply in writing to the State Department of Education for the State to assume the financial responsibility for this transportation, provided funds are appropriated annually by the General Assembly for this purpose. If funds are not appropriated by the General Assembly, then neither the State nor a local school district is required to assume this obligation. Highway and railroad traffic hazardous criteria must be established by the school district governing body and must address the safety of the walk zone as it relates to the location of the school to the the traffic patterns, speeds and volume on student’s residence, roadways and railroads, the existence of sidewalks or other walk paths, the age, available crossing control systems and student’s personnel, and other factors considered pertinent. The districts shall weigh the need for state hazardous transportation funds by giving priority to students who are least familiar with traffic movement and the complexity of the traffic hazards. The Department of Education shall equitably allocate appropriated funds to the district for hazardous transportation services, provided funds are appropriated by the General Assembly for this purpose. The department shall applications for transportation within a receive each district’s hazardous area and apply these against the allocation until district’s available funds are exhausted. When available state funds are exhausted, the remaining costs are the responsibility of the respective district, if the local school district has elected to assume this obligation. If funds are not appropriated by the General Assembly, then neither the State nor a local school district shall be required to assume this obligation. (C) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (A), the State shall transport and bear the cost of transporting threeand fouryearold students attending public school programs to their residences at the conclusion of a morning child development session and from their residences to an afternoon child development session. (D) The State shall provide school transportation service as closely and safely as practicable, to the residence of each unescorted student who is eligible to receive statefunded school transportation service and who is enrolled in a fullday fouryearold child development program or kindergarten through the second grade,
(B) The State may assume the obligation of transporting students living within one and onehalf miles of their schools and who reside within threetenths of a mile walking distance of their residences when it is for the health and safety of the students where when hazardous traffic conditions are involved, provided funds are appropriated annually by the General Assembly for this purpose. In these cases, the local school district shall apply in writing to the State Department of Education for the State to assume the financial responsibility for this transportation, provided funds are appropriated annually by the General Assembly for this purpose. If funds are not appropriated by the General Assembly, then neither the State nor a local school district is required to assume this obligation. Highway and railroad traffic hazardous criteria must be established by the school district governing body and must address the safety of the walk zone as it relates to the location of the school to the student’s residence, the traffic patterns, speeds and volume on roadways and railroads, the existence of sidewalks or other walk paths, the student’s age, available crossing control systems and personnel, and other factors considered pertinent. The districts shall weigh the need for state hazardous transportation funds by giving priority to students who are least familiar with traffic movement and the complexity of the traffic hazards. The Department of Education shall equitably allocate appropriated funds to the district for hazardous transportation services, provided funds are appropriated by the General Assembly for this purpose. The department shall receive each district’s applications for transportation within a hazardous area and apply these against the district’s allocation until available funds are exhausted. When available state funds are exhausted, the remaining costs are the responsibility of the respective district, if the local school district has elected to assume this obligation. If funds are not appropriated by the General Assembly, then neither the State nor a local school district shall be required to assume this obligation. (C) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (A), the State shall transport and bear the cost of transporting threeand fouryearold students attending public school programs to their residences at the conclusion of a morning child development session and from their residences to an afternoon child development session. (D) The State shall provide school transportation service as closely and safely as practicable, to the residence of each unescorted student who is eligible to receive statefunded school transportation service and who is enrolled in a fullday fouryearold child development program or kindergarten through the second grade,
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