Relating to school bus monitoring systems and the required reporting of certain offenses recorded by those systems.

HB 723 requires Texas school districts and local authorities to install monitoring systems (cameras) on all school buses used for transporting students to or from school or school activities. These systems must detect specific traffic offenses under Section 545.066 and certain violations in the Penal Code, with recorded images reported immediately to law enforcement. School districts must provide these images to law enforcement as evidence for those offenses, and the images can be used in court proceedings. The bill sets a deadline of September 1, 2025, for new systems (with a later 2027 deadline for existing systems), and modifies other transportation code sections to prevent using traffic camera footage for unrelated enforcement.