An act to amend 1990 PA 187, entitled “An act to regulate the equipment, maintenance, operation, and use of school buses; to prescribe the qualifications of school bus drivers; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental agencies; to create an advisory committee and to prescribe its powers and duties; and to prescribe remedies and penalties,” by amending sections 5 and 20 (MCL 257.1805 and 257.1820), section 5 as amended by 2006 PA 107 and section 20 as added by 2021 PA 52.
House Bills 4928, 4929, and 4930 would amend different acts to do the following: • Authorize a school district (instead of, as currently, a school) to install or operate a stop-arm camera system on a school bus or enter into a contract with a vendor to do so. (HB 4930) • Additionally allow a school district to enter into an agreement with a law enforcement agency to report a vehicle passing, or failing to stop behind, a school bus that is stopped and has its red lights flashing and to provide evidence to the agency from the stop-arm camera system. (HB 4930) • Remove a provision that now requires a stop-arm camera system to be able to capture images of a distance of at least 200 feet in front of the school bus. (HB 4928) • Require the registered owner of a vehicle that commits a camera-based violation to be fined between $250 and $500 (The bill would also raise the minimum fine to $250 for non-camera-based violations, but would keep the maximum fine at $500). (HB 4928) • Establish the proceedings for establishing and resolving a camera-based violation. (HB 4928) • Require the civil fine described above to be distributed to the school district that operates the school bus. (HBs 4928 and 4930)
Introduced
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Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform
Discharged from committee
Substitute H-1 offered
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The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 80 to 27 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
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The motion prevailed by voice vote
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Reported with substitute S-1
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported with substitute S-1
Substitute S-1 concurred in by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 23 to 15 (details)
Substitute S-1 concurred in 65 to 39 (details)
