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This law was first created in 2020. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 576<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":77128,"section_number":"22.1-176","catch_line":"Transportation of pupils authorized; when fee may be charged; contributions; regulations of Board of Education","order_by":null,"url":"\/22.1-176\/"}],"permalink":{"id":181275,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63672,"identifier":"22.1-176.2","token":"22.1\/12\/1\/22.1-176.2","url":"\/22.1-176.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/22.1-176.2\/","token":"22.1\/12\/1\/22.1-176.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Certain students; waiver to access student transportation in certain cases","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 22.1-176.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Each school board<\/span> that provides for the transportation of students pursuant to \u00a7 22.1-176<\/a> and that has established a rule, regulation, or policy to exclude certain students who reside within a certain distance from the school at which they are enrolled from accessing such transportation shall establish a process for waiving, on a case-by-case and space-available basis, such exclusion and providing transportation to any such student whose parent<\/span> is unable to provide adequate transportation for his child to attend school because the parent<\/span> is providing necessary medical care to another family member who resides in the same household, as evidenced by a written explanation submitted by a licensed health care provider who provides care to such family member.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCERTAIN STUDENTS; WAIVER TO ACCESS STUDENT TRANSPORTATION IN CERTAIN CASES (\u00a7\n22.1-176.2)\n\nEach school board that provides for the transportation of students pursuant to\n\u00a7 22.1-176 and that has established a rule, regulation, or policy to exclude\ncertain students who reside within a certain distance from the school at which\nthey are enrolled from accessing such transportation shall establish a process\nfor waiving, on a case-by-case and space-available basis, such exclusion and\nproviding transportation to any such student whose parent is unable to provide\nadequate transportation for his child to attend school because the parent is\nproviding necessary medical care to another family member who resides in the\nsame household, as evidenced by a written explanation submitted by a licensed\nhealth care provider who provides care to such family member.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, c. 576.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}