{"id":134928,"date":"2026-03-10T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134928\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:31:09","slug":"proposed-bill-calls-for-tougher-penalties-for-intoxicated-school-bus-drivers-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134928\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed bill calls for tougher penalties for intoxicated school bus drivers | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A state lawmaker is taking action after a school bus driver was arrested while driving her route and charged with DUI.<\/p>\n<p>State Senator Tracy Pennycuick (R &#8211; 24th District,) who represents parts of Berks and Montgomery counties, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/senate\/co-sponsorship\/memo?memoID=48278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">introduced the legislation today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It calls for increasing penalties for school bus drivers under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a Boyertown Area School District bus driver was transporting more than 50 students last month while under the influence of both alcohol and THC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/berks\/arrest-warrant-issued-for-school-bus-driver-suspected-of-dui\/article_06de5430-73bd-4b09-a9c9-08540d0035b9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">46-year-old Kelly Weber faces several charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; A state lawmaker is taking action after a school bus driver was arrested while driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[52516,37,28,128,130,129,62293,21017],"class_list":{"0":"post-134928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-bus-driver","9":"tag-harrisburg","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-reading-city","12":"tag-reading-city-headlines","13":"tag-reading-city-news","14":"tag-school-bus-driver","15":"tag-tracy-pennycuick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}