Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 51–Senator Rawson

 

May 31, 2001

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Read and Adopted

 

SUMMARY—Encourages use of systems to suppress engine compartment fires in school buses. (BDR R‑1570)

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

Senate Concurrent RESOLUTION—Encouraging the use of systems to suppress fires in the engine compartments of school buses.

 

1-1     Whereas, Each year school buses throughout the country experience

1-2  fire in their engine compartments that are serious enough to require

1-3  assistance from fire departments; and

1-4     Whereas, A fire in the engine compartment of a school bus can spread

1-5  rapidly and may result in injury or loss of life, equipment damage, personal

1-6  injury liability, vehicle downtime for repairs or loss of the vehicle; and

1-7     Whereas, Many of the school buses in use in this state and in the

1-8  country are used to transport students with physical disabilities; and

1-9     Whereas, Time may not be available for the complete evaluation of the

1-10  safety of such school buses; and

1-11     Whereas, The technology exists for the installation of a clean agent

1-12  vehicle thermatic fire extinguisher system in the engine compartment of

1-13  school buses; and

1-14     Whereas, Such systems can suppress dangerous fires within seconds;

1-15  now, therefore, be it

1-16     Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, the Assembly

1-17  Concurring, That the Nevada Legislature urges the Nevada Department

1-18  of Education and the State Board of Education to encourage school

1-19  districts in this state to specify that such systems be included in the

1-20  specifications for all purchases of new school buses; and be it further

1-21     Resolved, That the Nevada Department of Education and the State

1-22  Board of Education are urged to encourage school districts to install such

1-23  systems in existing school buses that transport disabled students, to the

1-24  extent financial resources are available; and be it further

1-25     Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy

1-26  of this resolution to the Nevada Department of Education for transmittal to

1-27  the State Board of Education and to all school districts in this state.

 

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