SB 6590 - DIGEST

Provides that every school bus must provide safety belts for use by each person riding the bus. The safety belts must be of a design to provide a lap belt for pelvic restraint and a shoulder belt to restrain upper torso movement. The safety belts are required in all school buses purchased on or after June 30, 2004, and must be retrofitted to all school buses by June 30, 2010.

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the biennium ending June 30, 2005, from the highway safety fund to the superintendent of public instruction to carry out the purposes of this act.