South Carolina House Bill 3462 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-08 - Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
Pending: House Education and Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend The Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, By Adding Section 59-67-75 So As To Provide School Buses Must Be Equipped With Three-point Lap And Shoulder Seat Belts In Numbers Sufficient To Allow All Student Passengers To Use Such Belts, To Provide This Requirement Is In Addition To Certain Other Existing Safety Standards, To Provide All Student Passengers Transported On Buses Equipped With Three-point Lap And Shoulder Seat Belts Shall Wear Such Seat Belts, To Provide School Districts May Implement Related Enforcement Policies, To Provide No Claims For Damages May Arise From School Bus Driver Failures To Ensure School Bus Passengers Wear Seat Belts, To Provide Exemptions For Certain Disabled Passengers And During Emergencies, And To Provide Related Definitions; To Amend Section 59-67-40, Relating To The Applicability Of Certain Requirements Of Public School Buses To Private School Buses, So As To Include Three-point Lap And Shoulder Seat Requirements; And To Make These Provisions Applicable Only To Buses Manufactured On Or After The One Hundred Eightieth Day Following The Effective Date Of This Act.

School buses

Rep. Leola Robinson-Simpson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
2019-01-08	House	Introduced and read first time

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
59	67	40	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	67	75	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3462&session=123&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess123_2019-2020/prever/3462_20190108.htm