ONLINE Heroes & Heartbreak
Rachel Trimbell was awarded
the New York State Liberty Medal by Sen. Jen Metzger and became the first-ever recipient of the “Super Star Award” through the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office. Trimbell was recognized for saving the life of a choking student while on a school bus. Visit stnonline. com/go/5p to read more. Ken Patterson, a school bus
driver for students with special needs, was honored with the MVP Express Personnel Award. Patterson works at Western Heights School District in Oklahoma and has been a school bus driver for the past 20 years.
Two school buses in eastern Canada were involved in a July 23 collision,
causing both vehicles to catch fire. A total of 83 children were in the two buses, 67 of whom were taken to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Read more wire reports at
stnonline.com/go/wr.
Hot Topic! School Bus Safety for the New School Year The Iowa State Board of Education
adopted new rules requiring three- point lap/shoulder seatbelts on new school buses that are ordered on or after Oct. 2, 2019. At the time of this writing, Iowa’s Administrative Rules Review Committee was performing a final review of the rules before approv- al. Visit
stnonline.com/tag/seatbelts. A federal bill was introduced on
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July 25 that calls for a new version of legislation that includes the recom- mendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board, in re- sponse to the fatal December 2017 school bus fire in Iowa. The bill adds fire suppression systems and enhanced school bus driver oversight to a previ- ous call for three-point seatbelts and other safety measures. The original bill that was first introduced in September 2018 did not make it out of the House. The U.S. Senate passed a resolution for
the seventh consecutive year declar- ing September as National School Bus Safety Month. Read more at
stnonline.com/safety.
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Another safety bill that was introduced
into Congress is the Alyssa’s Legacy Youth in Schools Safety Act (ALYSSA Act), which calls for improved response time to active shooter incidents that occur on school property. The bill was named after Alyssa Alhadeff, a victim of the Stoneman Douglas Shooting in Florida on Feb. 14, 2018. Visit stnonline. com/go/5q to read more. The most recent state to authorize the installation of video cameras on its school buses to catch motorists illegally passing a bus was New York on Aug. 6, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law. That made New York the 20th state in the nation to enact a stop- arm video camera law. A legislator in Kentucky has pre-
filed a similar bill, but it would actually require school bus cameras on all school buses, instead of only autho- rizing school districts to install them. If passed, all school buses there would have to be equipped with stop-arm cameras by Aug. 1, 2023. Visit stnon-
line.com/tag/Stop-arm to read more.
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