The bill's consideration comes one year after a concrete pumper truck hit a Hays CISD school bus in Bastrop County, killing a ...

Narrator: Take a look at this school bus from 1939 ... have been a lot of changes inside the bus, including rollover protection, safer fuel systems, and taller seats. Although a few notable ...

Following a deadly crash in Bastrop in 2024, a Senate bill would tighten requirements for seat belts on buses and enhance ...

The bill, authored by Texas Sen. Jose Menedez, D-San Antonio, would expand on a 2017 bill that requires all buses made after ...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, seat belts don’t offer an advantage on school buses because they are designed to be safer than passenger vehicles in preventing ...

Currently, 77% of the district's school buses have seat belts. But by the start of the 2025-26 school year, the district says all of them will have seat belts. “Those conversations are always ...