Act No. 52

Public Acts of 2021

Approved by the Governor

July 13, 2021

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 13, 2021

EFFECTIVE DATE:  October 11, 2021

 

 

 

state of michigan

101st Legislature

Regular session of 2021

Introduced by Reps. VanWoerkom, Allor, Roth, O Malley and Jones

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4204

AN ACT to amend 1990 PA 187, entitled  An act to regulate the equipment, maintenance, operation, and use of school buses; to prescribe the qualifications of school bus drivers; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental agencies; to create an advisory committee and to prescribe its powers and duties; and to prescribe remedies and penalties,  (MCL 257.1801 to 257.1877) by adding section 20.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 20. (1) A school bus may be equipped with a stop-arm camera system in accordance with this section.

(2) A school may do either of the following:

(a) Install and operate a stop-arm camera system on a school bus.

(b) Enter into a contract with a private vendor to install and operate a stop-arm camera system on a school bus.

(3) As used in this section,  stop-arm camera system  means a system of 2 or more cameras affixed to a school bus that meets all of the following requirements:

(a) Is synchronized to automatically record video or 1 or more sequenced photographs of a vehicle failing to stop for a school bus or passing a school bus in violation of section 682(1) of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.682.

(b) Is capable of capturing images of all of the following:

(i) The vehicle.

(ii) The registration plate on the rear of the vehicle.

(iii) A distance of not less than 200 feet in front of the school bus.

(c) Records the date, time, and location on an image produced by the system.

 

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

 

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 4202 of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.


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This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor

Compiler's note: House Bill No. 4202, referred to in enacting section 2, was filed with the Secretary of State July 13, 2021, and became 2021 PA 50, Eff. Oct. 11, 2021.