Bill Text: TX SB693 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to three-point seat belts on buses that transport schoolchildren.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB693 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB693-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to three-point seat belts on buses that transport schoolchildren.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB693 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB693-Comm_Sub.html
By: Garcia | S.B. No. 693 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2017; February 15, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; | ||
April 18, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 18, 2017, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 693 | By: Garcia |
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relating to three-point seat belts on buses that transport | ||
schoolchildren. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 547.701(e), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) In this subsection, "bus" includes a school bus, [ |
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school activity bus, multifunction school activity bus, or | ||
school-chartered bus. A bus operated by or contracted for use by a | ||
school district for the transportation of schoolchildren shall be | ||
equipped with a three-point seat belt for each passenger, including | ||
the operator. This subsection does not apply to: | ||
(1) a bus purchased by a school district that is a | ||
model year 2017 or earlier; or | ||
(2) a bus purchased by a school district that is a | ||
model year 2018 or later if the board of trustees for the school | ||
district: | ||
(A) determines that the district's budget does | ||
not permit the district to purchase a bus that is equipped with the | ||
seat belts required by this subsection; and | ||
(B) votes to approve that determination in a | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 547.701(f), Transportation Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. It is the public policy of this state to ensure | ||
the safety of all students by taking every measure possible to | ||
protect the lives and well-being of students during transportation | ||
on a bus to and from school and extracurricular activities, | ||
including the measure enacted in Section 547.701(e), | ||
Transportation Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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