study of passenger carrier insurance limits in concert with the private school bus industry before it could ever raise those minimum requirements for coverage. NSTA has said that previous attempts by the FMCSA to move forward with rulemaking could increase insurance costs by 400 percent. Te Fast Act also calls for a School Bus Safety Study that includes analysis of current federal and state requirements and guidance on home-to-school trans- portation to note any correlation between public and private operators.
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Te National School Transportation Association is celebrating the approval by both the U.S. House and Senate of the five-year, $305-billion Fixing America’s Surface Trans- portation Act, which President Obama signed it into law on Dec. 4. Among other things, it requires the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to conduct a comprehensive
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