This document is intended to help California school boards in the selection of an appropriate and adequate student transportation system; and in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a school bus fleet. Guidelines and pertinent State legislation are given for school bus purchase, maintenance, insurance and replacement; health consideration and safety measures in pupil transportation; transportation of exceptional children and of pupils for purposes other than travel between home and school; recordkeeping; and State allowances for pupil transportation. This information is also relevant for school administrators responsible for the operation of pupil transportation systems; governing boards that wish to evaluate their pupil transportation systems; pupil transportation personnel responsible for inservice training; driver education classes; teacher inservice training programs; and interested lay groups. (Photographs may reproduce poorly.) (Author/MLF)