The Texas Senate on Wednesday approved legislation requiring all school buses purchased after September 1 to have three-point seat belts for all occupants.
It doesn't include extra state funding to pay for seat belts, and the bill's author, Democratic Sen.
The bill stems from a crash that killed six elementary school children in Chattanooga in November.
Garcia reminded Hall that she had previously handed him three or four studies that supported the use of seat belts in buses.
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Garcia's bill would require seat belts on all buses purchased in 2017 or later and would not allow schools to opt out. A crash this month in Lumberton, outside of Beaumont, sent 23 fourth-graders to the hospital, but no one died.
Another major cost, according to the legislative analysis, is that seat belt equipped buses would reduce the number of seats in a bus by as many as 12 seats, which would require more buses. Five Republicans joined Hall in voting against the bill: Sens. "Do we really want to raise the risk level of our children in school buses for something that just sounds good and feels good?" Hall asked. "We will actually be harming, killing more children than we would save".
During the presentation by Favors, D-Chattanooga, McCormick noted "we've got those issues [on costs] and as you know, you've been here as long as I have, how we handle this".
Meanwhile, McCormick said an amendment added by House Government Operations Committee on Tuesday did not add to the bill's costs.
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