U.S. Congress legislation · 119th Congress
SR944: A resolution designating September 2026 as "School Bus Safety Month".
Status: Introduced, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
From the introduced text, September 30, 2026:
III 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 944 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 30, 2026 Mrs. Fischer (for herself and Mr. Peters ) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Designating September 2026 as School Bus Safety Month . Whereas school buses comprise the largest mass transportation fleet in the United States; Whereas, in an average year, 26,000,000 K-12 students ride a school bus every day, and school bus operators drive school buses more than 3,800,000,000 miles; Whereas the Child Safety Network (referred to in this preamble as the CSN ), which is celebrating 37 years of public service in the United States, supports the CSN Safe Ride campaign, which is designed to provide the school bus industry with driver training, the latest technology, and free safety and security resources, including resources to help parents raise safer and healthier children; Whereas CSN is providing free downloadable video education to tens of millions of kindergarten through sixth grade students on danger zones, safely boarding and disembarking from school buses, emergency evacuation, pedestrian safety, and preventing bullying aboard school buses; Whereas billions of student boarding and unloading events occur each school year; Whereas motorists illegally pass stopped school buses tens of millions of times annually, placing students entering and exiting school buses at risk, and …
Sponsors
- Fischer, Deb (R) · primary sponsor
- Peters, Gary (D)
Latest actions
- : Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5299; text: CR S5271-5272)
- : Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.
Subjects: Transportation and Public Works
Common questions
- What is SR944?
- SR944 is a bill in Congress (119th Congress): A resolution designating September 2026 as "School Bus Safety Month".
- What is the status of SR944?
- Introduced as of September 30, 2026. Latest action: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5299; text: CR S5271-5272) (September 30, 2026).
- Who sponsored SR944?
- Fischer, Deb (R), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for SR944?
- On the Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-re/944
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