Wednesday, March 22, 2017

School bus seat belts
Legislation requiring seat belts on all Tennessee school buses by 2023 would cost the state an estimated $58.7 million and local governments $423.4 million, according to a fiscal analysis released this week. The legislation was introduced after the November, 2016 crash of a Chatanooga Elementary School bus that killed six students. "It's a big, big cost," noted Represenative Terri Lynn Weaver, as members of her subcommittee looked at the fiscal advisory prepared by the General Assembly's Fiscal Review Committee. A 2015 bill, introduced as a result of a school bus crash involving fatalities, also had a high estimated cost but not quite as large as the recent proposal. Retrofitting existing buses with seat belts won't work because they aren't built for that. So the 79 percent of Tennessee school buses without the restraints would have to be discarded for new ones over the six-year period before the deadline.


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