By Guy Marzorati, KQED News Fix/The California Report
Three bills to increase inspection of tour buses in California, inspired by a high-profile bus crash in San Francisco’s Union Square last November, are advancing in the state Legislature.
The Assembly Committee on Transportation approved AB 1677 on Monday, after its author, Assemblyman Phil Ting of San Francisco, removed a portion of the bill that would have allowed local governments to set up their own inspection programs. Those inspections would have supplemented the checks currently carried out by the California Highway Patrol.
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