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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 38: AN ACT relating to school bus safety.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 38 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to school bus safety. Most recent recorded action (March 27, 2025): passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; allow the use of camera monitoring systems on school buses operated by a school district, and allow the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the school district; allow a law enforcement agency to charge a fee of $25 from every civil penalty enforced by the law enforcement agency; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures for a contest to a violation; allow for suspension of motor vehicle registration for failure to timely pay a penalty; require a school district or law enforcement agency to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a motor vehicle registration suspension within one business day of payment; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fines for failing to stop for a school or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school or church bus to stop for the bus on a highway that is not divided by an elevated barrier or unpaved median.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
  2. passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
  3. passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
  4. posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (2)
  5. to Rules (S)
  6. received in Senate
  7. passed 83-13 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (2)
  8. Floor Amendment (1) defeated
  9. 3rd reading
  10. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025
  11. floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute
  12. 2nd reading, to Rules

Showing 12 most recent of 23 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source