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HR 1828 · in committee · significant

School Bus Safety Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The Department of Transportation must require school buses to have safety features like seat belts, fire suppression systems, automatic braking, and collision detection.
  • School bus operators, students, and local school districts are affected by the new safety requirements and training standards.
  • DOT will establish a grant program to help school districts purchase or upgrade buses with the required safety features.

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  1. 01

    How would federal safety mandates affect school districts with limited budgets that cannot access or afford the upgrade grants?

  2. 02

    What evidence supports that specific features like fire suppression systems and collision detection meaningfully reduce injury rates in school bus accidents?

  3. 03

    Which safety upgrades should prioritize funding if districts must choose between multiple requirements due to limited grant availability?

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Steve Cohen

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Introduced 2025-03-04

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-04 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

  2. 2025-03-04 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-03-04 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-03-04 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. 2025-03-04 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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