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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 691
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 1798
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PENALTIES FOR PASSING A SCHOOL
BUS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That (1) subsection (b) of section 14-279 of the general statutes be 1
amended to increase the penalty for passing a school bus to a one-2
thousand-dollar fine and sixty-day suspension of a motor vehicle 3
operator's license or nonresident operating privilege for a first offense 4
and a two-thousand-dollar fine and six-month suspension of a motor 5
vehicle operator's license or nonresident operating privilege for a 6
second or subsequent offense, and (2) subsection (e) of section 51-56a of 7
the general statutes be amended to remit fifty per cent of the fine 8
amounts received in respect to the violation of section 14-279 of the 9
general statutes to the local or regional school district in which the 10
violation occurred. 11
Statement of Purpose:
To increase the penalties for passing a school bus and remit fifty per cent
of the fine amounts received for passing a school bus to the local or
regional school district in which the violation occurred.