00HOUSE BILL NO. 216                                                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to required safety equipment on school buses."                                                         
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03    * Section 1.  AS 28.05.104(b) is amended to read:                                                                  
04  (b)  The Department of Education, in coordination with the Department of                                              
05 Public Safety, shall                                                                                                    
06   (1)  establish equipment requirements for each type of school bus that                                               
07 is used to transport school children to or from a public school; equipment requirements                                 
08 must include  warning  [TWO RED STROBE] lights [WITH ALTERNATING                                                      
09 FLASHES] attached to the stop arm, a white strobe light attached to the roof of the                                     
10 school bus and not more than six feet from the rear of the school bus, interior                                         
11 flammability standards, number and location of emergency exits, seat-back height and                                    
12 padding requirements, and seat belt standards;                                                                          
13   (2)  at least twice each calendar year, inspect each school bus for                                                  
14 compliance with this subsection; and                                                                                    

01   (3)  maintain a record of each accident involving a school bus or other                                              
02 vehicle transporting school children that is owned, leased, or provided under contract                                  
03 to a school district or regional educational attendance area; the record must include the                               
04 date of the accident, a list of persons injured, whether the person's injury occurred                                   
05 within the school bus, and each type of injury.