Bill Text: IL SB0191 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Provides that, beginning July 1, 2031, each designated seating position in any newly purchased school bus shall be equipped with a combination pelvic and upper torso seat safety belt system in good operating condition and meeting all applicable federal standards. Provides that nothing in the provisions requires a public or nonpublic school, school district, transportation provider or contractor, or other entity operating a school bus to ensure that the seat safety belt or other restraint system is correctly adjusted and fastened or to give instruction on how to correctly adjust or fasten the seat safety belt or other restraint system. Provides that the requirement does not apply to a school bus that is leased by a school district or a school bus that is legally registered in another state and displaying valid registration plates of that state if the bus is not operated in Illinois in connection with a cultural, tourist, athletic, or other similar activity for students enrolled in a school located outside of Illinois. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-08-01 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0075 [SB0191 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-SB0191-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by adding | ||||||
| 5 | Section 12-826 as follows:
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| 6 | (625 ILCS 5/12-826 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 12-826. Seat safety belts required. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) Beginning July 1, 2031, each designated seating | ||||||
| 9 | position in any newly purchased school bus shall be equipped | ||||||
| 10 | with a combination pelvic and upper torso seat safety belt | ||||||
| 11 | system (also known as a 3-point seat safety belt, Type 2 seat | ||||||
| 12 | safety belt, or lap and shoulder restraint system) in good | ||||||
| 13 | operating condition and meeting all applicable federal | ||||||
| 14 | standards. | ||||||
| 15 | (b) Nothing in this Section requires a public or nonpublic | ||||||
| 16 | school, school district, transportation provider or | ||||||
| 17 | contractor, or other entity operating a school bus, including | ||||||
| 18 | a bus driver, bus aide, volunteer, or other staff, to ensure | ||||||
| 19 | that the seat safety belt or other restraint system is | ||||||
| 20 | correctly adjusted and fastened or to give instruction on how | ||||||
| 21 | to correctly adjust or fasten the seat safety belt or other | ||||||
| 22 | restraint system. | ||||||
| 23 | (c) This Section does not apply to a school bus that is | ||||||
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| 1 | leased by a school district or a school bus that is legally | ||||||
| 2 | registered in another state and displaying valid registration | ||||||
| 3 | plates of that state if the bus is not operated in Illinois in | ||||||
| 4 | connection with a cultural, tourist, athletic, or other | ||||||
| 5 | similar activity for students enrolled in a school located | ||||||
| 6 | outside of Illinois. | ||||||
| 7 | (d) As used in this Section, "school bus" has the meaning | ||||||
| 8 | given to that term in Section 1-182.
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| 9 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 10 | becoming law. | ||||||