H-1060

   Amend House File 395 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 321.1, subsection 69, paragraph d, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   d.  New or used motor vehicles designed to carry not more than ten persons as passengers, including the driver, or used passenger vans designed to carry not more than twelve fifteen persons as passengers, including the driver, either school owned or privately owned, which are used to transport pupils to activity events in which the pupils are participants or used to transport pupils to their homes in case of illness or other emergency situations. The vehicles operated under the provisions of this paragraph shall be operated by employees of the school district who are specifically approved by the local superintendent of schools for the assignment.
   Sec. ___.  Section 321.373, subsection 3, paragraph c, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  The rules shall allow used passenger vans designed to carry twelve fifteen or fewer passengers, including the driver, and weighing ten thousand pounds or less, to be used as school buses if the van does not carry more passengers than there are safety belts or safety harnesses in the van as installed by the manufacturer. The operator of the van shall comply with the qualification, licensing, and instruction requirements set forth in sections 321.375 and 321.376.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, before <approved> by inserting <the transportation of students, including the use of certain passenger vans as a school bus and>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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KNIFF MCCULLA of Marion