Getting kids to and from school has been a challenge for many Kentucky school districts.

A high ranking Senate Democrat believes he's got an answer to that right now.

School bus drivers must have their commercial driver's license or CDL to operate a traditional full sized school bus.

That requirement, along with competition from other professions like trucking, have put many school districts in a pinch to get more drivers, particularly in Jefferson County.

LOUISVILLE Democratic State Senator David Yates's Senate Bill 90 to provide schools with some more transportation options.

Senate Bill 92.

It might be your headline.

It is common sense government legislation that will make transportation safer, faster and more cost efficient.

And we do that by allowing non CDL drivers to drive non CDL vehicles.

And we know that we have routes all throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky that is not efficient.

You have sometimes a handful of students that are going all the way out through the rural areas or you'll have a whole bus of students, full bus of students waiting on one or two because of the compounds.

And so what's been asked best practices.

Sitting around a table to say what we can do to make transportation better.

The Senate Bill 92 And we will allow simply that you have regular nine traditional vehicles for transportation, such as vans, the multi passenger vans, smaller vehicles that you do not need to see deal.

Now, why is it such a big issue?

Well, we know that we have a huge shortage of CDL drivers.

We have a huge shortage of bus drivers.

But they have to be CDL.

And right now, the trucking industry has also had a shortage inhibit competition.

So what we want to do is make sure we have our kids getting to and from school safely, efficiently and more cost effective.

Under Yates's bill, qualifications and standards for these non CDL drivers would be established by the Kentucky Board of Education.