[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 285 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 285

       Designating September 2019 as ``School Bus Safety Month''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 25, 2019

 Mrs. Fischer (for herself and Ms. Duckworth) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
       Designating September 2019 as ``School Bus Safety Month''.

Whereas, every school day in the United States, approximately 500,000 public and 
        private school buses carry more than 26,000,000 children to and from 
        school;
Whereas school buses comprise the largest mass transportation fleet in the 
        United States;
Whereas 48 percent of all K-12 students ride a school bus for each of the 180 
        school days in a year, totaling nearly 4,680,000,000 miles driven in 
        school buses annually;
Whereas the Child Safety Network, celebrating 30 years of national public 
        service, supports the CSN Safe Bus campaign, which is designed to 
        provide the latest training, technology, and free safety and security 
        resources to the school bus industry;
Whereas the designation of School Bus Safety Month will allow broadcast and 
        digital media and social networking industries to make commitments to 
        disseminate public service announcements that are produced in order--

    (1) to provide free resources designed to safeguard children;

    (2) to recognize school bus drivers and professionals; and

    (3) to encourage the driving public to engage in safer driving behavior 
near school buses when students are boarding and disembarking from the 
school buses;

Whereas key leaders who are deserving of recognition during School Bus Safety 
        Month and beyond have provided security awareness training materials to 
        more than 14,000 public and private school districts, trained more than 
        100,000 school bus operators, and provided more than 150,000 
        counterterrorism guides to individuals who are key to providing both 
        safety and security for children in the United States; and
Whereas School Bus Safety Month offers the Senate and the people of the United 
        States an opportunity to recognize and thank all of the school bus 
        drivers in the United States and the professionals who are focused on 
        school bus safety and security: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate designates September 2019 as ``School Bus 
Safety Month''.
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