Louisiana's House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have required school buses to have air-conditioning and heating systems, the Times-Picayune reports.
The bill would have required the systems on every bus bought on or after Aug.
1, the LSU Manship School News Service reports.
Then in 2027, the bill would have required all school buses to have the systems.
The House rejected the bill 42-57 after nearly 90 hours of debate.
Republican Rep.
Dewith Carrier said his "poor little town is as broke as the Ten Commandments."
He added, "We can hardly pay anything.
Have you ever gone into your car and opened the door and see the heat jumps on you as soon as you walk to the door of your car? It's affected all of us, especially the elderly people like me."
Rep.ylvia Taylor, a Democrat, said the bill was in the best interest of children.
"What we're asking for here is that you're not placing our children on buses that don't have heat and don't have air-conditioning," she said.
But many representatives were concerned about the bill's reliance on local funding and the difficulty that many communities would have finding the money.
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