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90_HB3374 New Act Creates the Endangering School Bus Transportation Act. Provides that the offense of endangering school bus transportation is committed when a person tampers with a facility of school bus transportation with intent to cause damage, malfunction, or nonfunction or knowingly threatens a driver or passenger with death or imminent bodily injury or with a deadly weapon or words or actions intended to induce belief that the person is armed with a deadly weapon. Provides that the offense is a Class A misdemeanor. LRB9009425NTmb LRB9009425NTmb 1 AN ACT concerning school buses. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 5 Endangering School Bus Transportation Act. 6 Section 5. Definition. In this Act, "school bus" has 7 the same meaning as it has in the Illinois Vehicle Code. 8 Section 10. Endangering school bus transportation. A 9 person commits the offense of endangering school bus 10 transportation if the person does any one or more of the 11 following: 12 (1) Tampers with a school bus or school bus facility 13 with intent to cause any damage, malfunction, or nonfunction. 14 (2) On a school bus knowingly threatens any driver or 15 passenger: 16 (A) with death or imminent bodily injury; or 17 (B) with a deadly weapon or with words or actions 18 intended to induce belief that the person is armed with a 19 deadly weapon. 20 Section 15. Sentence. Endangering school bus 21 transportation is a Class A misdemeanor.