Committee advances optional school‑bus camera program after privacy tweaks
The Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection committee advanced House Bill 7, allowing school districts to opt into bus-mounted cameras that record only when a stop arm is extended; the committee sub narrowed the bill and it passed unanimously out of committee.
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Representative David Hale introduced House Bill 7, saying the bill would let school districts contract with vendors to place cameras on buses that record only while a stop arm is extended to catch motorists who illegally pass stopped buses. "There was around 1,600 violations in 1 day," Hale said, citing an education‑department survey of participating drivers.
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