HB0228 - School buses-required safety belts.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0548

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0228

 

 

School buses-required safety belts.

 

Sponsored by:  Representative(s) Parady and Huckfeldt and
Senator(s) Cathcart, Hinchey and Larson

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; directing the state
 2  superintendent to stop rules requiring safety belts in
 3  certain buses as specified; and providing for an effective
 4  date.

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 6  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

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 8         Section 1.  W.S. 31-5-118(a) is amended to read:

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10         31-5-118.  Regulations relative to school buses.

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12         (a)  The state superintendent of public instruction
13  shall adopt and enforce regulations not inconsistent with
14  this act to govern the design and operation of all school
15  buses used for the transportation of school children when
16  owned and operated by any school district or privately

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 1  owned and operated under contract with any school district
 2  in this state and the regulations shall by reference be
 3  made a part of any contract with a school district. Rules
 4  and regulations promulgated under this subsection shall
 5  require any school bus manufactured on or after July 1,
 6  2001, to have installed at the time of manufacture safety
 7  belts for the bus driver and all bus passengers. Every
 8  school district, its officers and employees, and every
 9  person employed under contract by a school district shall
10  be subject to the regulations.

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12         Section 2.  This act is effective July 1, 2001.

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14                         (END)

 

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