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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 413

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 413 as follows:

 3    on  page  1,  by  replacing  lines  4  through  26  with  the
 4    following:

 5        "Section 5.  The Illinois Vehicle  Code  is  amended   by
 6    changing Sections 1-182 and 11-1414.1 as follows:

 7        (625 ILCS 5/1-182) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1-182)
 8        Sec. 1-182.  School bus.
 9        (a)  "School  bus"  means  every motor vehicle, except as
10    provided in paragraph (b) of this Section, owned or  operated
11    by   or   for   any   of   the  following  entities  for  the
12    transportation of persons regularly enrolled as  students  in
13    grade  12  or  below  in connection with any activity of such
14    entity:
15        Any public or private primary or secondary school;
16        Any primary or secondary school operated by  a  religious
17    institution; or
18        Any public, private or religious nursery school.
19        (b)  This definition shall not include the following:
20             1.  A  bus  operated  by a public utility, municipal
21        corporation or common carrier authorized to conduct local
 
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 1        or interurban transportation of passengers when such  bus
 2        is not traveling a specific school bus route but is:
 3             On    a    regularly   scheduled   route   for   the
 4        transportation of other fare paying passengers;
 5             Furnishing charter service for the transportation of
 6        groups on field  trips  or  other  special  trips  or  in
 7        connection with other special events; or
 8             Being  used  for  shuttle service between attendance
 9        centers or other educational facilities.
10             2.  A motor vehicle of the First Division.
11             3.  A motor vehicle designed for the  transportation
12        of  not  less  than  7  nor  more than 16 persons that is
13        operated by  or  for  a  public  or  private  primary  or
14        secondary  school,  including  any  primary  or secondary
15        school operated  by  a  religious  institution,  for  the
16        purpose  of transporting not more than 15 students to and
17        from interscholastic athletic or other interscholastic or
18        school sponsored activities.
19             4.  A  truck  as  defined  in  Section  1-211   when
20        students  are  being  transported  within  the  passenger
21        compartment  to  a  school related instructional program.
22        The number of students being transported may  not  exceed
23        the   number  of  actual  seating  positions  within  the
24        passenger compartment of the truck.
25    (Source: P.A. 89-132, eff. 7-14-95.)

26        (625 ILCS 5/11-1414.1) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11-1414.1)
27        Sec. 11-1414.1. School transportation of students.
28        (a)  Every student enrolled in grade 12 or below  in  any
29    entity  listed in paragraph (a) of Section 1-182 of this Code
30    who is transported in a second division motor  vehicle  owned
31    or  operated  by  or  for that entity, in connection with any
32    official activity of such entity, must be  transported  in  a
33    school  bus  or  a  bus  described  in  subparagraph  (1)  of
 
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 1    paragraph (b) of Section 1-182.
 2        (b)  This  Section shall not apply to any second division
 3    vehicle being used by such entity in a parade, homecoming  or
 4    similar  school  activity,  or  to  a  truck used in a school
 5    related instructional program if  authorized  by  the  school
 6    board  and  supervised by the school district, nor to a motor
 7    vehicle designed for the transportation of not  less  than  7
 8    nor more than 16 persons while that vehicle is being operated
 9    by  or  for  a public or private primary or secondary school,
10    including any primary  or  secondary  school  operated  by  a
11    religious  institution,  for  the purpose of transporting not
12    more than 15 students to and from interscholastic athletic or
13    other interscholastic or school sponsored activities, nor  to
14    any  truck,  as  defined  in Section 1-211, when students are
15    being transported  within  the  passenger  compartment  to  a
16    school related instructional program.  The number of students
17    being transported may not exceed the number of actual seating
18    positions  within  the  passenger compartment of the truck. A
19    school board that authorizes a truck, as defined  in  Section
20    1-211,  to  transport  students enrolled in grade 12 or below
21    for a  school  related  instructional  program  shall  accept
22    liability  for  any  injury  or  damage  resulting  from  the
23    transportation of the students.
24    (Source: P.A. 89-132, eff. 7-14-95.)

25        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
26    becoming law.".