[Stats. 1999, Chapter 648
(AB 15, Gallegos)]

Amends Education Code Section 38048, adds Education Code 38047.5, and amends Vehicle Code Section 27316

New law requires that school buses manufactured on or after January 1, 2002 and purchased or leased for use in California have a "passenger restraint system" at all designated seating positions, unless specifically prohibited by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

The new law also provides: "The State Board of Education shall adopt regulations to require a passenger in a schoolbus equipped with passenger restraint systems . . . to use a passenger restraint system so that the passenger is properly restrained by that system."