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| To enact section 5501.35 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| require the Department of Transportation to survey | 2 |
| each school district, community school, and STEM | 3 |
| school regarding transportation safety and | 4 |
| alternative transportation options for students | 5 |
| living within two miles of school. | 6 |
| Section 1. That section 5501.35 of the Revised Code be | 7 |
| enacted to read as follows: | 8 |
| Sec. 5501.35. (A) In coordination with the department of | 9 |
| transportation's safe routes to school program, the director of | 10 |
| transportation shall create a survey regarding school | 11 |
| transportation safety policies and the promotion of nonmotorized | 12 |
| transportation options for public school students living within | 13 |
| two miles of their school of attendance. Each city, local, | 14 |
| exempted village, and joint vocational school district, community | 15 |
| school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, and | 16 |
| STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code | 17 |
| shall complete and return the survey on or before a date specified | 18 |
| by the director. The director shall not require a community or | 19 |
| STEM school to complete a survey if no student attending the | 20 |
| school lives within two miles of the location of the school. The | 21 |
| survey shall state the purpose of the survey and provide | 22 |
| information on the safe routes to school program. The survey also | 23 |
| may seek the following information: | 24 |
| (1) The location of each school building operated by the | 25 |
| district or school and the percentage of the school's students | 26 |
| living within two miles of the school; | 27 |
| (2) Whether the district or school has in place any programs | 28 |
| relating to transportation safety or the promotion of nonmotorized | 29 |
| modes of transportation, such as the use of a crossing guard or | 30 |
| participation in a walk to school day; | 31 |
| (3) Whether any safety or traffic study has been completed | 32 |
| for the school location, and the results of such a study; | 33 |
| (4) Whether the district or school has surveyed students | 34 |
| living within two miles of the school's location regarding modes | 35 |
| of transportation to the school; | 36 |
| (5) Any other factors the director determines to be | 37 |
| appropriate. | 38 |
| (B) The director shall compile the surveys required in | 39 |
| division (A) of this section and publish the findings on the | 40 |
| department's web site within ninety days of the effective date of | 41 |
| this section. | 42 |