HB 185 -- School Bus Safety Belts

Sponsor:  Flook

This bill imposes a $15 surcharge for each motor vehicle moving
violation to be deposited into the newly created School Bus
Safety Assistance Fund to assist school districts in equipping
new school buses with lap-shoulder safety belts for all
passengers.  The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
will decide how the funds are to be allocated with more moneys
given to school districts with lower quotients when dividing the
district's assessed valuation by the weighted daily attendance of
the most recent school year.  Beginning January 1, 2010, new
buses purchased or buses manufactured after that date must be
equipped with lap-shoulder safety belts or other federally
approved restraint systems on each passenger seat.  The bill
specifies how the belts must be used and exempts the state and
school districts, among others, from liability for non-use or
misuse of the belt under certain conditions.  School districts
must give first priority to elementary school buses.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated November 17, 2009 at 9:24 am