Researchers
Neal Hawkins
hawkins@iastate.edu email >Director Research Administration, ISU
Susan Chrysler
About the research
In 2012, the Iowa legislature passed a bill for an act relating to school bus safety, including providing penalties for failure to obey school bus warning lamps and stop signal arms, providing for a school bus safety study and administrative remedies, and making an appropriation. The bill, referred to as Iowa Senate File (SF) 2218 or “Kadyn’s Law,” became effective March 16, 2012. A multiagency committee addressed three specific safety study elements of Kadyn’s Law as follows:
* Use of cameras mounted on school buses to enhance the safety of children riding the buses and aid in enforcement of motor vehicle laws pertaining to stop-arm violations
* Feasibility of requiring school children to be picked up and dropped off on the side of the road on which their home is located
* Inclusion of school bus safety as a priority in driver training curriculum
This report and tech transfer summary summarize the findings for each of these topics.
