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House approves $20 million clean-fuel school-bus initiative; districts must provide 50% match
Summary
House Bill 41 creates a competitive grant program to replace older diesel school buses with alternative-fuel buses and fund infrastructure. Sponsor cited a $20 million fiscal note ($14M for buses, $6M for infrastructure) and said districts would provide a 50% match; the bill passed 73-1.
The House approved House Bill 41, which establishes a grant program to help school districts replace older diesel school buses with cleaner alternative-fuel vehicles and to fund supporting fueling infrastructure.
Representative Handy, sponsor of HB 41, said the pupil transportation task force and the State Office of Education developed the initiative to address aging buses (the state…
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