Bill Title: To require all school buses purchased, leased, or rented after January 1, 2016, to transport students to and from school to be equipped with a seat belt assembly for all passengers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-29 - To Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
[HB578 Detail]Download: Ohio-2013-HB578-Introduced.html
As Introduced
130th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2013-2014 |
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Representatives Letson, Winburn
A BILL
| To enact section 4511.773 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
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require all school buses purchased, leased, or | 2 |
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rented after January 1, 2016, to transport | 3 |
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students to and from school to be equipped with a | 4 |
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seat belt assembly for all passengers. | 5 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4511.773 of the Revised Code be | 6 |
enacted to read as follows: | 7 |
Sec. 4511.773. (A) On and after January 1, 2016, no person, | 8 |
community school, board of education, or governmental entity shall | 9 |
purchase, lease, or rent a school bus to transport students to and | 10 |
from school unless the school bus has a seat belt assembly | 11 |
installed for the use of each school bus passenger occupying a | 12 |
passenger seat. The seat belt assembly shall consist of a | 13 |
retractable combination pelvic and upper torso restraint and shall | 14 |
meet or exceed federal requirements for such seat belt assemblies. | 15 |
Each person, community school, board of education, or governmental | 16 |
entity operating a school bus shall maintain all available seat | 17 |
belt assemblies in a usable form. | 18 |
(B) A person, community school, board of education, or | 19 |
governmental entity operating a school bus shall adopt a | 20 |
disciplinary policy governing the failure of a school bus | 21 |
passenger to wear or properly adjust an available seat belt | 22 |
assembly. | 23 |
(C) Nothing in this section, including any disciplinary | 24 |
policy adopted under division (B) of this section, shall be | 25 |
construed as imposing on a person, community school, board of | 26 |
education, or governmental entity operating a school bus a duty to | 27 |
ensure that a school bus passenger wear and properly adjust an | 28 |
available seat belt assembly. A person, community school, board of | 29 |
education, or governmental entity operating a school bus is not | 30 |
subject to criminal prosecution and is not liable in damages in | 31 |
any civil action on account of any injury, death, or loss of | 32 |
person or property allegedly arising from a failure to enforce a | 33 |
disciplinary policy adopted under division (B) of this section or | 34 |
to otherwise ensure that a school bus passenger wear and properly | 35 |
adjust an available seat belt assembly. | 36 |
(D) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting | 37 |
the liability or immunity of a person, community school, board of | 38 |
education, or governmental entity operating a school bus under | 39 |
Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code. | 40 |