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BILL · 2017–18 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 1246

HB 1246: School bus safety

Concerning school bus safety.

Summary

  • Requires that every school bus manufactured or assembled after September 1, 2019, be equipped with a shoulder harness-type safety belt assembly for each passenger position.
  • Directs school districts to require passengers in school buses equipped with seat belts to wear the belts whenever the bus is in motion, and grants related criminal and civil immunity for specified persons and entities.
  • Requires that, beginning September 1, 2019, every school bus be equipped with an automated school bus safety camera for detecting vehicle infractions involving the overtaking or unlawful meeting of a school bus that has stopped on the roadway to load or unload school children.
  • Establishes provisions for the use of revenues collected through infractions detected with an automated school bus safety camera, including using revenues for enforcing the infractions, funding school bus safety belt systems, and funding school bus replacement incentives.
  • Establishes new provisions for the school bus replacement incentive program of the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), including requiring the OSPI to fund up to 10 percent of the cost of a new school bus if the new bus is replacing a 1994 or older school bus, or the oldest bus in the school district's fleet.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1246), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 16, 2017
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Gina Mosbrucker (R-14)
Introduced
January 16, 2017 in the House
Last action
February 2, 2018
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 1246, SHB 1246

AN ACT Relating to school bus safety;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Gina Mosbrucker (R-14)

12 co-sponsors (8 Democrats, 4 Republicans)

Tina Orwall D-33Norm Johnson R-14Steve Kirby D-29Joan McBride D-48Mary Dye R-9Chris Kilduff D-28Mia Gregerson D-33Sharon Wylie D-49Larry Haler R-8Sherry Appleton D-23Tana Senn D-41Dick Muri R-28

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 1246)
  2. Referred to Appropriations.
  3. ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1246)
  4. Minority; do not pass. (SHB 1246)
  5. Minority; without recommendation. (SHB 1246)
  6. Minority; without recommendation.
  7. Minority; do not pass.
  8. ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  9. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  10. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  11. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  12. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  13. First reading, referred to Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1246 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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