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School-bus seat-belt referendum bill fails in committee after debate over sanctions
Summary
A bill to let local voters decide, by petition, whether to require seat belts on school buses and to authorize a dedicated millage to pay for installation failed to secure sufficient votes in committee after debate over the proposed sanction of withholding transportation funds for noncompliant districts.
Representative Mark McElroy presented a bill providing a local-option mechanism: if 10% of registered voters in a school district sign a petition, the question of whether to require seat belts on school buses and the associated millage to pay for installation would be placed before the district's voters. The bill also included an enforcement provision that would withhold transportation funding…
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