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Alvin ISD trustees vote to exercise exception to seat-belt retrofit mandate for older buses
Summary
Trustees voted 6-0 to determine the district's budget does not permit purchasing or retrofitting buses with three-point seat belts under Senate Bill 546, citing replacement costs, fleet age and grant-seeking efforts. The resolution is a one-time statutory determination; compliance timing and future law changes remain possible.
The Alvin Independent School District board voted 6-0 to exercise a statutory budget-based exception under Senate Bill 546 and a cited Texas Transportation Code provision that allows districts to determine they cannot afford to purchase, retrofit or replace buses to meet a new three-point seat-belt requirement.
Trustee Johnson moved the resolution that, in accordance with Senate Bill 546 (the referenced Texas Transportation Code provision), "the district's current budget does not…
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