Committee Substitute

for

H. B. 4407

(By Delegates Ennis, Swartzmiller, Cann,
Pethtel, Williams, Stephens, Schadler,
Moye, Gall, Stalnaker and Varner)
[Originating in the Committee on Education.]
(February 14, 2008)

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17C-15-51, relating to required equipment for school buses; and requiring automatic tire chains as standard equipment on all new school buses .

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §17C-15-51, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 15. EQUIPMENT.

§17C-15-51. Chains required on school buses.
Beginning the first day of July, two thousand nine, all new school buses that are purchased for use for the transportation of public school children in this state, whether owned and operated by a county board of education or privately owned and operated under contract with a county board of education, shall be equipped with automatic chains for use on the bus tires during inclement weather when road conditions require their use.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.