Ian Paisley Junior, the Democratic Unionist Party politician, is backing the initiative and told Children Now he hoped a pilot scheme would be up and running in the North Antrim area shortly after the start of the new school term.
He is pushing for the introduction of the measure following the suicide last year of 11-year-old Aaron Armstrong, who was systematically bullied on school bus journeys.
Gordon Topping, chief executive of Northern Ireland's North Eastern Education and Library Board, said financial constraints prevented bus wardens being deployed on all buses but that he supported trials to gauge the scheme's effectiveness.
Paisley said: "If it creates a safe environment, prevents bullying, and more importantly prevents another death, it will be money well invested."
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