1. (a) School districts and charter schools will be responsible for developing the school bus emergency evacuation training curriculum based on the most recent edition of the National School Transportation Specifications and Procedures, as adopted by the National Congress on School Transportation, or a similar school transportation safety manual.
2. (b) For purposes of conducting school bus emergency evacuation training, the term "spring" shall be defined as January 1 to June 30 and the term "fall" shall be defined as July 1 to December 31.
3. (c) School districts and charter schools should make a good faith effort to ensure that all students, teachers, and appropriate staff receive the required school bus emergency evacuation training twice each school year. School districts and charter schools shall prepare and maintain a record of each student and teacher that did not receive the required training as well as the reason(s) that the individual was not able to attend the training.

4. (d) Reporting Requirements.

   1. (1) A record of each school bus emergency evacuation training session conducted must be submitted on a form prescribed by the department that is available at the following Internet web site address: http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/forms. All information requested on the form must be completed. The completed form must be mailed to School Bus Transportation, Texas Department of Public Safety, P.O. Box 4087, Austin, Texas 78773-0525 or submitted via electronic mail to sbt@txdps.state.tx.us.
   2. (2) Reports must be submitted not later than the 30th day after the date each training session is completed.

Source Note:The provisions of this §14.54 adopted to be effective March 18, 2009, 34 TexReg 1879.