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Committee adds panic-button, push-to-talk options and reduces lottery funding to $10M per year for school bus safety bill
Summary
The Ohio House Transportation Committee amended House Bill 3 to add silent panic alerts and broadband push-to-talk to the list of eligible school bus safety features and reduced the bill's lottery-based appropriation to $10 million per fiscal year; the measure was reported out of committee 12-0.
The Ohio House Transportation Committee on Oct. 12 considered amendments to House Bill 3, adopting changes that add silent panic-alert technology and broadband push-to-talk capabilities to a list of eligible school bus safety features and reduce the bill's proposed lottery-fund appropriation to $10 million in each fiscal year.
The changes were offered during the committee's consideration of HB 3 and were adopted without recorded objection. "This amendment ... has all of the potential safety features that school districts could want," the committee chair said when explaining the first amendment, adding that the new items mirror panic-alert systems used inside schools and give bus drivers an immediate way to summon first responders. "This would give…
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