KY HB461 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on March 12 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-03-12 - to Committee on Committees (S)
Pending: Senate Committee on Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 12 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-03-12 - to Committee on Committees (S)
Pending: Senate Committee on Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to define terms; require the use of camera monitoring systems on all school buses by all school districts, and require the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the county; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; require a form for a stop arm camera violation notice; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures for a contest to a violation; require a recipient of a violation to pay or contest the violation within 60 days; allow for suspension of registration for failure to pay a fine; require a county to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a suspension within one business day of payment; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fines for failing to stop for a school bus or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school bus to stop for a school bus on highways that are not divided by a raised barrier or unpaved median; amend KRS 64.090 to provide that a sheriff may retain charge and collect a fee pf $50 from every collected civil penalty for a stop arm camera violation enforced by the sheriff's office; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Title
AN ACT relating to school bus safety.
Sponsors
| Rep. David Hale [R] | Rep. Chad Aull [D] | Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D] | Rep. Wade Williams [R] |
Roll Calls
2024-03-11 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 253 (Y: 79 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-12 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-12 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-11 | House | 3rd reading, passed 79-14 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendments (1), (2) and (3) |
| 2024-03-06 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 07, 2024 |
| 2024-03-01 | House | floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-02-28 | House | floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-02-28 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-02-27 | House | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-02-27 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-02-22 | House | to Transportation (H) |
| 2024-02-05 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-02-05 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Boards and Commissions
Counties
Education, Elementary and Secondary
Effective Dates, Delayed
Local Mandate
Sheriffs
Transportation
Counties
Education, Elementary and Secondary
Effective Dates, Delayed
Local Mandate
Sheriffs
Transportation
