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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3296
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the purchase, rent,
or lease, for use as a schoolbus, of a motor vehicle that does not
comply with motor vehicle safety standards that apply to schoolbuses,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
Mr. UDALL of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the pur-
chase, rent, or lease, for use as a schoolbus, of a motor
vehicle that does not comply with motor vehicle safety
standards that apply to schoolbuses, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Schoolbus Safety Act
of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PURCHASE, RENTAL, OR LEASE
OF NONCOMPLYING MOTOR VEHICLE FOR
USE AS A SCHOOLBUS.
(a) PROHIBITION.—Section 30112(a) of title 49,
United States Code, is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘Except as pro-
vided in this section’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) Except as provided in this section, sections
30113 and 30114 of this title, and subchapter III of this
chapter, a person may not purchase, rent, or lease any
motor vehicle designed to carry 10 or more passengers
that the person knows or reasonably should know will be
used significantly for transport referred to in subsection
(a)(1) of section 30125 of this title (relating to standards
for schoolbuses and schoolbus equipment), unless the
motor vehicle complies with motor vehicle standards that
apply to schoolbuses under that section.’’.
(b) LIMITATION ON APPLICATION.—Subsection (a)
shall not apply to any purchase, rent, or lease of a motor
vehicle required under a contract entered into before the
date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 3. APPLICATION OF SCHOOLBUS SAFETY STANDARDS
TO MOTOR VEHICLES USED FOR TRANSPORT
OF POSTSECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.
Section 30125(a)(2) of title 49, United States Code,
is amended by striking ‘‘and secondary’’ and inserting
‘‘secondary, and postsecondary’’.
SEC. 4. PENALTY.
Section 30165(a) of title 49, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘A person’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2)(A) The maximum amount of a civil penalty
under this subsection shall be $25,000, in the case of—
‘‘(i) the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, intro-
duction or delivery for introduction into interstate
commerce, or importation of a schoolbus or school-
bus equipment (as those terms are defined in section
30125(a) of this title) in violation of section
30112(a)(1) of this title; or
‘‘(ii) a violation of section 30112(a)(2) of this
title.
‘‘(B) This paragraph does not affect the maximum
penalty for a related series of violations.
‘‘(C) Amounts received by the United States in the
form of civil penalties under this subsection for a violation
referred to in subparagraph (A) (i) or (ii) shall be depos-
ited into a separate account in the Treasury and may be
used only by the Secretary, in such amounts as are pro-
vided in advance in appropriations Acts, for enforcement
of this chapter with respect to such violations.’’.
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