[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3296 Introduced in House (IH)]







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.


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                    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 
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 provided 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, introduction 
        or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce, or 
        importation of a schoolbus or schoolbus 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 deposited into a separate account 
in the Treasury and may be used only by the Secretary, in such amounts 
as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts, for enforcement of 
this chapter with respect to such violations.''.
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