(a) For the purpose of regulating the design and operation of school buses, whenever the secretary of transportation, or words of like effect, is referred to or designated by a statute, contract or other document, such reference or designation shall be deemed to apply to the state board of education.

(b) On the effective date of this act, the state board of education shall succeed to the custody and control of all records which were used for or pertain to the performance of powers, duties and functions imposed and conferred on the secretary of transportation under the provisions of this act. Any conflict as to the proper disposition of such records arising under this section, and resulting from the transfer of the powers, duties and functions of the secretary of transportation to the state board of education shall be resolved by the governor, whose decision shall be final.

(c) All rules and regulations of the secretary of transportation adopted pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-2009, and amendments thereto, in existence on the effective date of this act, shall continue to be effective and shall be deemed to be duly adopted rules and regulations of the state board of education, until revised, amended, revoked or nullified pursuant to law.