Full Text of HB2348 94th General Assembly
HB2348sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Christine Radogno
Filed: 5/10/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2348
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2348 on page 1, line | 3 |
| 5, after "13B-55", by inserting "and adding Section 12-816"; | 4 |
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| on page 4, immediately below line 11, by inserting the | 6 |
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| "(625 ILCS 5/12-816 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 12-816. Post-trip inspection policy for school buses. | 9 |
| (a) In order to provide for the welfare and safety of | 10 |
| children who are transported on school buses throughout the | 11 |
| State of Illinois, each school district shall have in place, by | 12 |
| January 1, 2006, a policy to ensure that the school bus driver | 13 |
| is the last person leaving the bus and that no passenger is | 14 |
| left behind or remains on the vehicle at the end of a route, a | 15 |
| work shift, or the work day. | 16 |
| (b) If a school district has a contract with a private | 17 |
| sector school bus company for the transportation of the | 18 |
| district's students, the school district shall require in the | 19 |
| contract with the private sector company that the company have | 20 |
| a post-trip inspection policy in place.
This policy and | 21 |
| procedure shall, at a minimum, require the school bus driver, | 22 |
| before leaving the bus at the end of each route, work shift, or | 23 |
| work day, to walk to the rear of the bus and check in and under | 24 |
| each seat for sleeping children. |
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| (c) Before this inspection, the school bus driver shall | 2 |
| activate the interior lights of the bus to assist the driver in | 3 |
| seeing in and under the seats during a visual sweep of the bus. | 4 |
| (d) This policy may include, at the discretion of the | 5 |
| school district, the installation of a mechanical or electronic | 6 |
| post-trip inspection reminder system which requires the school | 7 |
| bus driver to walk to the rear of the bus to deactivate the | 8 |
| system before the driver leaves the bus. The system shall | 9 |
| require that when the driver turns off the vehicle's ignition | 10 |
| system, the vehicle's interior lights must illuminate to assist | 11 |
| the driver in seeing in and under the seats during a visual | 12 |
| sweep of the bus. "; and
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| on page 6, by replacing lines 10 and 11 with the following: | 14 |
| "Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 15 |
| becoming law, except that the changes to Sections 6-306.7 and | 16 |
| 13B-55 of the Illinois Vehicle Code take effect on July 1, | 17 |
| 2006.".
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