Vehicles approaching school buses to stop for flashing red lights requirement

A bill for an act

relating to transportation; requiring vehicles approaching school buses to stop for

flashing red lights; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 169.444, subdivision

1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 169.444, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Children getting on or off school bus.

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(a)
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When a school bus is stopped

on a street or highway, or other location where signs have been erected under section
169.443,

subdivision 2
, paragraph (b), and is displaying
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an extended stop-signal arm and
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flashing

red lights, the driver of a vehicle approaching the bus
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shall
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must
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stop the vehicle at least 20

feet away from the bus. The vehicle driver
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shall
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must
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not allow the vehicle to move until
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the school bus stop-signal arm is retracted and
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the red lights are no longer flashing.

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(b) A vehicle approaching a school bus displaying the prewarning flashing amber lights

is thereby warned that continued movement is being terminated and that the flashing red

lights are about to be exhibited when vehicular traffic must not encroach within 20 feet of

the school bus.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective the day following final enactment.

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