A09322 Summary

• Extends the school bus photo violation monitoring program's expiration date from December 1, 2024 to December 1, 2029, allowing continued use of camera systems to enforce school bus stop-arm violations.

• Removes the requirement that counties, cities, towns, or villages be "located within a school district" to participate in the demonstration program, broadening eligibility for jurisdictions to establish enforcement systems.

• Adds a rebuttable presumption that a bus displaying the national school bus color and equipped with a monitoring system is a school bus stopped to receive/discharge passengers with operational red signal lights, shifting the burden to defendants to prove otherwise by clear and convincing evidence.

• Establishes new signage requirements in conformance with traffic control standards at jurisdictional boundaries to notify motorists that school bus photo violation monitoring systems are in use.

• Adds school bus stop-arm malfunction as an affirmative defense to violations and creates a separate administrative adjudication hearing process with specific timelines and standards for dispute resolution before court proceedings.