7/3/11 

The school year 2010-11 Bus Accident Reporting System (BARS) survey deadline is August 31, 2011, according to a recent announcement by the Texas Education Agency School Transportation Funding office.  EVERY school district and open-enrollment charter school must use the web-based tool to submit information on bus accidents. The web-based survey must be completed even if there were no accidents meeting the reporting requirements during school year 2010-11. 

The BARS collects the following required information.    

• "Number of bus accidents 

• For each accident: 

  • Date of the accident  

  • Type of bus involved  

  • Number of students/adults involved in the accident  

  • Number and types of injuries that were sustained by bus passengers  

  • Whether injured passengers were wearing seat belts at the time of the accident and, if so, the type"

To read the Commissioner's Rules for bus accident reporting requirements, click on the link below.

19 Texas Administrative Code §61.1028, Reporting of Bus Accidents

To preview the BARS survey to review what information will need to be organized to complete the actual web-based survey, click on the link below.

Preview 2010-2011 BARS Survey Questions

To complete the BARS survey, click on the link below.

Click here to take the survey.

To access the BARS general information page, click on the link below. 

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=7732

Additionally, the Student Transportation Operations Report on all incurred costs and all mileage for school year 2010-11 is to be filed by school districts and open-enrollment charter schools no later than December 1, 2011.  This report is filed in the FSP Payment System and this web-based report is scheduled to open on October 1 for entering report data. To access the instructions for the Student Transportation Operations Report, click on the link below. 

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=2147484107&menu_id=645