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Committee advances bill to toughen penalties for illegally passing stopped school buses
Summary
A Senate committee advanced a bill that raises fines for drivers who illegally pass stopped school buses and creates a higher offense — a class A misdemeanor — when conduct shows a reckless disregard for passenger safety, based on multi‑year sampling presented by schools.
A Senate committee voted to advance a bill that increases penalties for drivers who illegally pass stopped school buses, the committee heard. The presenter, citing sampling by Cedarville schools and the state facilities division, said the data show recurring, one‑day samples across multiple years with hundreds of incidents.
The presenter told the committee that the proposed law raises the baseline fine for passing a stopped school bus to a minimum of $500…
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