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Committee approves bill to enforce local law letting voters decide on school-bus seat belts
Summary
Representative McElroy told the House Committee on Public Transportation that House Bill 1536 would add enforcement to a 2017 local-control law allowing registered voters to petition school boards to require seat belts on new buses or to approve a millage to pay for the additional cost.
Representative McElroy told the House Committee on Public Transportation that House Bill 1536 would add enforcement to a 2017 local-control law allowing registered voters to petition school boards to require seat belts on new buses or to approve a millage to pay for the additional cost. "All we're doing is putting some teeth in an existing law that's been in since 02/2017," McElroy said.
McElroy said the 2017 law gives petitioners a choice: if 10% of registered voters in a school district sign a petition, the district must either place the millage question on the next regular school-board ballot showing the cost to taxpayers or forego the election and equip…
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