 
   CHAPTER 39--EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION OF 
                                STUDENTS
 
        SUBCHAPTER II--ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS
 
Sec. 1757. Prohibition of forced busing during school year


(a) Congressional findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) the forced transportation of elementary and secondary school 
    students in implementation of the constitutional requirement for the 
    desegregation of such schools is controversial and difficult under 
    the best planning and administration; and
        (2) the forced transportation of elementary and secondary school 
    students after the commencement of an academic school year is 
    educationally unsound and administratively inefficient.

(b) Student transportation orders incidental to student transfers 
        pursuant to school desegregation plans effective beginning with 
        academic school year

    Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no order of a court, 
department, or agency of the United States, requiring the transportation 
of any student incident to the transfer of that student from one 
elementary or secondary school to another such school in a local 
educational agency pursuant to a plan requiring such transportation for 
the racial desegregation of any school in that agency, shall be 
effective until the beginning of an academic school year.

(c) ``Academic school year'' defined

    For the purpose of this section, the term ``academic school year'' 
means, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Secretary, the 
customary beginning of classes for the school year at an elementary or 
secondary school of a local educational agency for a school year that 
occurs not more often than once in any twelve-month period.

(d) Orders subject to provisions of section

    The provisions of this section apply to any order which was not 
implemented at the beginning of the 1974-1975 academic year.

(Pub. L. 93-380, title II, Sec. 258, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 520; Pub. 
L. 96-88, title III, Sec. 301(a)(1), title V, Sec. 507, Oct. 17, 1979, 
93 Stat. 677, 692.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Secretary'', meaning the Secretary of Education, substituted for 
``Commissioner'' in subsec. (c) pursuant to sections 301(a)(1) and 507 
of Pub. L. 96-88, which are classified to sections 3441(a)(1) and 3507 
of this title and which transferred functions of Commissioner of 
Education to Secretary of Education.
