HB 461 KY

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to define terms; require the use of camera monitoring systems on all school buses by all school districts, and require the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the county; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; require a form for a stop arm camera violation notice; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures for a contest to a violation; require a recipient of a violation to pay or contest the violation within 60 days; allow for suspension of registration for failure to pay a fine; require a county to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a suspension within one business day of payment; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fines for failing to stop for a school bus or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school bus to stop for a school bus on highways that are not divided by a raised barrier or unpaved median; amend KRS 64.090 to provide that a sheriff may retain charge and collect a fee pf $50 from every collected civil penalty for a stop arm camera violation enforced by the sheriff's office; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.

• D. Hale Republican · primary
• C. Aull Democratic · primary
• R. Palumbo · primary
• W. Williams Republican · primary

1. Feb 5, 2024 introduced in House · lower
2. Feb 5, 2024 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Feb 22, 2024 to Transportation (H) · lower
4. Feb 27, 2024 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) · lower
5. Feb 27, 2024 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute · lower
6. Feb 28, 2024 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
7. Feb 28, 2024 floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute · lower
8. Mar 1, 2024 floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute · lower
9. Mar 6, 2024 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 07, 2024 · lower
10. Mar 11, 2024 3rd reading, passed 79-14 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendments (1), (2) and (3) · lower
11. Mar 12, 2024 received in Senate · upper
12. Mar 12, 2024 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF