HB272 Alabama 2014 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2014

Title

Buses, schools allowing violation to be enforced by video recording, Sec. 32-5A-154 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a driver of a vehicle must stop upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide that the failure to stop upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children may be enforced by means of video images</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide a civil penalty for citations</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for notice and procedures</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for a rebuttable presumption</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for a transfer of funds</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Section 32-5A-154, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the duty of the driver of a vehicle meeting or overtaking a school bus and reporting of violations; to provide that the failure to stop upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children may be enforced by means of video images; to provide a civil penalty; to provide for notice and procedures; to provide for a rebuttable presumption; and to provide for a transfer of funds. </p>

Subjects

School Buses