88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Thursday, November 12, 2026
SF 495: Relating to school bus equipment standards, requirements, and funding, and including effective date provisions
Died when the session ended · The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.
What it does
This bill relates to school bus equipment standards and requirements.373 requires every school bus except private passenger vehicles used as school buses to be constructed and equipped to meet safety standards prescribed in rules adopted by the state board of education. The bill requires a new school bus ordered for purchase by a school district on or after the effective date of this bill to be equipped with a stop arm camera mounted to the school bus stop arm and requires existing school buses to be equipped with stop arm cameras mounted to the school bus stop arm within two years following the effective date of the bill.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
No fiscal note
Senate subcommittee · named March 6, 2019
- Sen. Amy Sinclair (R) · amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov
- Sen. Claire Celsi (D)
- Sen. Brad Zaun (R)
In plain words
- March 6, 2019Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
- March 6, 2019Senate subcommittee named: Sinclair, Celsi and Zaun
From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Thursday, November 12, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/88/SF495