View the proposal on line at:
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_82
The bill sounds kind of watered down to me. It only requires that seat belts are to be installed on buses if they are purchased or leased after January 1st 2010. Ever after that date, it provides for diciplinary action against the children (or their parents) if they do not wear or adjust them properly. What it does do, is eliminate any responsibility from bus drivers or owners from any recourse (as in a lawsuit) if the students don't have a seatbelt on and get hurt. Bad news for liability lawyers.
Let me try to understand this. It is the responsibility of bus owners to install seat belts on school buses (good idea). It is the responsibility of a first grader to adjust them properly and wear them (huh?). If they don't, it is their own problem, and they are barred from suing the bus driver or the school system or transportation company.
What a waste of time....
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