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Committee advances bill to enforce local votes on school-bus seat belts
Summary
The House Transportation Committee voted to pass House Bill 1536, which would add enforcement language to a 2017 local-control law allowing voters to require seat belts on new school buses or approve millage to cover the cost.
Representative McElroy, sponsor of House Bill 1536, told the House Transportation Committee that the bill “puts teeth” into a law he authored in 2017 that lets registered voters in a school district petition for seat belts on new school buses or for a millage question to pay for them.
Under the 2017 local-control law described by McElroy, if 10% of a district’s registered voters sign a petition, the school board must either place a millage question on the next regular school board election to pay the incremental cost of equipping new buses with seat belts or forgo the election and buy future buses with seat…
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