Ohio's school bus safety bill passes state house
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House Bill 3, the School Bus Safety Act, passed 88-0 on Wednesday at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
It is sponsored by two state representatives, Rep. Bernie Willis, R-Springfield, and Rep. Cecil Thomas, D-Cincinnati.
The bill was introduced after a deadly school bus crash in Clark County that killed one student, Aiden Clark, and injured dozens of others in 2023.
It now heads to the Ohio Senate.
We will update this story.
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