Any school buses that districts purchase after July 2019 must be equiped with lap-shoulder belts. New Jersey A law requiring lap belts has been in place since 1992, but since 2018, all new buses ...

While only six states require seat belts on school buses -- California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Texas -- nonprofit organizations have for years encouraged the use of seat ...

Other than Texas, only eight states have a law mandating seat belts on school buses.Texas' 2017 law mandates that all newly purchased school buses built after 2018 have three-point safety ...

School buses generally don't have seat belts because they're designed with safety in mind. Using a concept called "compartmentalization," bus seats are set close together and have high backs made ...

If a school bus crashes and the passenger children do not have seatbelts, ... Seat belts on school buses can save lives. Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 11:14 a.m. By . Other Voices; ...

SAN ANTONIO — A violent crash involving a school bus killed two people, including a child. That 5-year-old was on the bus when it collided with a cement truck head on. After that crash many ...

On school bus seat belt cost "The average school bus ranges now from $110,000 and $150,000 just for one school bus.

On Monday (Jan. 23), Kutnick joined Rudy Breglia -- founder of the School Bus Seat Belt Safety Alliance -- in advocating for the requirement of lap-shoulder seat belts in school buses in Ohio when ...

During the 2022-23 school year, 717 of almost 1,600 school buses in Texas had lap and shoulder seat belts, and another 308 just had lap belts, according to Texas Education Agency data collected ...

The Ohio School Bus Safety Working Group met for the first time this week. The meeting follows a crash last month in Stark County where a minivan struck a school bus causing it to roll over. An ...