PRINTER'S NO. 3552
No. 2574 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY CLYMER, MAY 15, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 15, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for school bus requirements.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 4552 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
7 § 4552. General requirements for school buses.
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9 (b.4) Use of child restraint systems.--Every school bus
10 shall be equipped with a child restraint system that is in
11 conformity with 49 CFR 571.222 (relating to school bus passenger
12 seating and crash protection). The child restraint system is
13 mandated according to the following schedule:
14 (1) School buses may be equipped with a child restraint
15 system after December 31, 1999.
16 (2) Every new school bus purchased and manufactured
17 after June 30, 2001, shall be equipped with a child restraint
1 system.
2 (3) By July 1, 2005, every school bus shall be equipped
3 with a child restraint system. Every school student shall be
4 required to use the child restraint system when the school
5 bus is in motion. Nothing in this subsection shall make the
6 owner or operator of a school bus liable for failure to
7 properly adjust and fasten a seat belt or other child
8 restraint system that is in conformity with applicable
9 Federal standards for a passenger who sustains injury as a
10 direct result of the passenger's failure to comply with the
11 requirement established by this section. The department shall
12 adopt regulations implementing this subsection.
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14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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