Author: Neal Hawkins

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Published: 2012

Total Pages: 56

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In 2012, the Iowa legislature passed a bill for an act relating to school bus safety, including providing penalties for failure to obey school bus warning lamps and stop signal arms, providing for a school bus safety study and administrative remedies, and making an appropriation. The bill, referred to as Iowa Senate File 2218 or Kadyn's Law became effective March 16, 2012. A multiagency committee addressed three specific safety study elements of Kadyn's Law as follows: (1) use of cameras mounted on school buses to enhance the safety of children riding the buses and aid in enforcement of motor vehicle laws pertaining to stop-arm violations; (2) feasibility of requiring school children to be picked up and dropped off on the side of the road on which their home is located; and (3) inclusion of school bus safety as a priority in driver training curriculum. This report summarizes the findings for each of these topics.