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Panel approves bill clarifying who must provide school bus insurance
Summary
The Education Administration subcommittee voted to advance House Bill 534, which replaces ambiguous statutory language about ‘‘owners’’ and ‘‘operators’’ with ‘‘contractors’’ to clarify insurance responsibility for school buses and prevent drivers from being required to buy separate liability policies.
Representative Rudder told the Education Administration subcommittee on a motion passed Tuesday that House Bill 534 replaces the statutory terms “owners” and “operators” with “contractors” so that individual bus drivers are not made personally responsible for securing insurance.
The change, Rudder said, clarifies that school systems and their contractors — not individual drivers who do not directly contract with LEAs — must provide and show proof of liability…
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