Bill Text: NJ S1619 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits school bus from stopping for students at certain locations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-05 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S1619 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S1619-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits school bus from stopping for students at certain locations.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning school bus stop locations and supplementing chapter 39 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A school bus shall not stop to pick up or discharge students at a location which would require a child to cross a road where the posted speed limit is greater than 35 miles per hour. Any school bus stop on a road with a speed limit greater than 35 miles per hour shall be developed in a manner which ensures that the bus stop will be on the child's home side of the road so that the child does not have to cross the road to board the bus or to reach home.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full school year following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits a school bus from stopping to pick up or discharge students at a location that would require a child to cross a road where the speed limit is greater than 35 miles per hour. The bill provides that any school bus stop located on a road with a speed limit greater than 35 miles per hour must be developed in a manner that ensures that a child does not have to cross the road to board the bus or to reach home.
