Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on June 1, 2004, to replace Michigan’s regulations on the number and color of school bus safety lights with federal standards. Also, to require that when boarding or discharging pupils, if a school bus stops on a roadway that has four lanes or more, it must stop in the extreme right-hand lane, and also make explicit certain signal light procedures that bus drivers must use

The vote was 108 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting

(House Roll Call 543 at House Journal 59)

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I find it hard to understand the importance of Safety Lights when the subject of Seat Belts is never even brought up. Isn't it a law that, for our own good, we must wear a Seat Belt & that it must be worn as it is proven that Selt Belts save lives & that it costs me at least $65 if I don't? But yet there are NO Seat Belts on School Buses!!! Aren't the children our most precious commodity?! Why aren't they being protected? Cars come with Seat Belts so why not School Busses? Now that it is known just how important Seat Belts are in saving lives why aren't Seat Belts currently being installed in the existing School Buses?! Yes, Safety Lights in School Buses are important but why not get serious & do something more meaningful & look at the whole picture & include the installation of Seat Belts. Isn't it just as important (if not more so) to save childrens lives, especially when there is this opportunity to do so?! With video cameras on buses now there should be quite a bit of footage that shows how violently those small bodies are thrown around during an accident. Maybe Seat Belts should be considered?! Garland from Wakefield,MI

I totally agree with your comments. I am a mother with a son that travels 2 hours a day on a busy highway. I am fighting the school to provide seat belts but they have told me unless I can come up with evidence that proves seat belts safer they won't even look at it. Have you any data that proves this? Jane Osborne skibunny@primus.ca