Bill Text: IL SB3090 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a school bus may be equipped with an extended stop signal or second stop signal apparatus on the driver's side of the school bus that: (1) extends no more than 7 feet from the school bus, (2) can break away from the original stop signal without affecting the operation of the original stop signal, and (3) includes a second octagonal sign that conforms to the same requirements as the original stop signal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3090 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3090-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3090 Introduced 2/5/2020, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/12-803 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-803
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a school bus may be equipped with an extended stop signal or second stop signal apparatus on the driver's side of the school bus that: (1) extends no more than 7 feet from the school bus, (2) can break away from the original stop signal without affecting the operation of the original stop signal, and (3) includes a second octagonal sign that conforms to the same requirements as the original stop signal.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 12-803 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/12-803) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-803)
Sec. 12-803. (a) Each school bus shall be equipped with a
stop signal arm on the driver's side of the school bus that may
be operated either manually or mechanically. For each school
bus manufactured on and after September 1, 1992, the stop
signal arm shall be an octagon shaped semaphore that conforms
to 49 C.F.R. 571.131, "SCHOOL BUS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY DEVICES",
S5.1 through S5.5.
(b) Each school bus manufactured prior to September 1, 1992
shall be equipped with a stop signal arm that conforms to
standards promulgated by the Department.
(c) A school bus may be equipped with an extended stop
signal or second stop signal apparatus on the driver's side of
the school bus that:
(1) extends no more than 7 feet from the school bus;
(2) is attached to the stop signal arm required under
subsection (a) so that, if the second stop signal apparatus
is struck by a vehicle, the second stop signal apparatus

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separates from the school bus without affecting the
operation of the stop signal arm required under subsection
(a); and
(3) includes a second octagonal sign that conforms to
the same requirements as the octagon shaped semaphore
required under subsection (a).
(Source: P.A. 88-415.)