Kentucky Senate Bill 38

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-09 - to Transportation (S)
Pending: Senate Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; allow the use of camera monitoring systems on school buses operated by a school district, and allow 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 school district; allow a law enforcement agency to charge a fee of $25 from every civil penalty enforced by the law enforcement agency; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures for a contest to a violation; allow for suspension of motor vehicle registration for failure to timely pay a penalty; require a school district or law enforcement agency to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a motor vehicle registration suspension within one business day of payment; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fines for failing to stop for a school or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school or church bus to stop for the bus on a highway that is not divided by an elevated barrier or unpaved median.

AN ACT relating to school bus safety.

Sen. Greg Elkins [R]

Sen. Matthew Deneen [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-09	Senate	to Transportation (S)
2025-01-07	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2025-01-07	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb38.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb38/orig_bill.pdf