Bill Text: MI HB5208 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transportation; school vehicles; seating capacity for the transportation of students; require to comply with number of students being transported. Amends sec. 59 of 1990 PA 187 (MCL 257.1859).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-14 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/13/2016 [HB5208 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5208-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5208

January 13, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Zemke, Liberati, Dianda and Plawecki and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

 

     A bill to amend 1990 PA 187, entitled

 

"The pupil transportation act,"

 

by amending section 59 (MCL 257.1859), as amended by 1996 PA 170.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 59. (1) A driver of a school bus shall not transport or

 

permit to be transported on a school bus while transporting pupils

 

to and from school a person other than pupils, persons enrolled in

 

a school-sponsored preschool program authorized by state or federal

 

statute, teachers or chaperons of the pupils or other persons

 

authorized by the school for the protection of property or the

 

health, safety, and welfare of the pupils or persons attending

 

other school related functions, or both. This subsection shall does

 

not apply during the transportation of persons under section 65.

 

     (2) After the fourth Friday following Labor day of each school

 

year a A school bus shall not be used to transport more than 100%

 

of the number of persons for which the school bus has a rated

 

seating capacity. A person who violates or directs a violation of

 

this subsection is responsible for a civil infraction and may be

 

ordered to pay a civil fine of not more than $100.00 per person for

 

each person that exceeds 100% of the number of persons for which

 

the school bus has a rated seating capacity.

 

     (3) A Except as provided in subsection (2), a person who

 

violates or directs a violation of this section is responsible for

 

a civil infraction and may be ordered to pay a civil fine of not

 

more than $100.00. A civil infraction under this subsection shall

 

be processed in the same manner as a civil infraction under the

 

Michigan vehicle code, Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949,

 

being sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.1949

 

PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.