PRINTER'S NO. 3155
No. 2345 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY C. WILLIAMS, BARD, BELARDI, CARONE, CIVERA,
M. COHEN, HORSEY, JOSEPHS, KIRKLAND, LEVDANSKY, McCALL,
MELIO, ROBERTS, ROBINSON AND J. TAYLOR, MARCH 12, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 12, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for school bus requirements.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 4552 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
7 § 4552. General requirements for school buses.
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9 (b.2) Use of child restraint systems.--Every school bus
10 shall be equipped with a child restraint system that is in
11 conformity with 49 CFR 571.222 (relating to Standard No.222;
12 School bus passenger seating and crash protection). The child
13 restraint system is mandated according to the following
14 schedule:
15 (1) School buses may be equipped with a child restraint
16 system after December 31, 1997.
17 (2) Every new school bus purchased and manufactured
1 after June 30, 1999, shall be equipped with a child restraint
2 system.
3 (3) By July 1, 2005, every school bus shall be equipped
4 with a child restraint system.
5 Every school student shall be required to use the child
6 restraint system when the school bus is in motion. Nothing in
7 this subsection shall make the owner or operator of a school bus
8 liable for failure to properly adjust and fasten a seat belt or
9 other child restraint system that is in conformity with
10 applicable Federal standards for a passenger who sustains injury
11 as a direct result of the passenger's failure to comply with the
12 requirement established by this section. The department shall
13 adopt regulations implementing this subsection.
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15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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