Title 17. Education

Chapter 2. Teachers and Employees

Part II. Tenure

Subpart C. School Bus Operators

17:497.3        In-service training; schedule

A. The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt a policy providing for the scheduling of in-service training for school bus operators. 

B. The schedule shall provide that all school bus operators, including any school board employee who drives a bus on an occasional basis to transport students to and from school activities, shall attend in-service training not more frequently than once every other school year. 

C. A city or parish school board shall have authority to provide in-service training for school bus operators on a more frequent basis than established by the policy of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education when such training is at no expense to the state. 

Added by Acts 1986, No. 284, § 1, eff. June 30, 1986. Amended by Acts 1987, No. 315, § 1, eff. July 6, 1987; Acts 2017, No. 335, § 1.