Bill Text: NY A02515 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus; provides that for the first conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $350 nor more than $500; provides that for a second conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $800; also provides that for a third conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $800 nor more than $1000.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02515 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02515-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2515

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DILAN, RIVERA, SANTABARBARA, THIELE, SAYEGH,
          EPSTEIN, DICKENS, COLTON,  NORRIS,  STERN,  CRUZ,  DeSTEFANO,  REILLY,
          J. M. GIGLIO,  BRABENEC,  TAGUE,  HEVESI,  MILLER, MORINELLO, GLICK --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FITZPATRICK -- read once  and  referred
          to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
          the penalties for passing a school bus with its red lights illuminated
          indicating that it is picking up or discharging students

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 254 of the laws of 2002, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (c)  Every  person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) of this
     5  section shall: for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine  of
     6  not  less  than [two hundred fifty] three hundred fifty dollars nor more
     7  than [four] five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for  not  more  than
     8  thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a conviction of a
     9  second  violation, both of which were committed within a period of three
    10  years, such person shall be punished by a fine of not  less  than  [six]
    11  five  hundred  dollars nor more than [seven hundred fifty] eight hundred
    12  dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days  or
    13  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment; upon a conviction of a third or
    14  subsequent violation, all of which were committed  within  a  period  of
    15  three  years,  such  person shall be punished by a fine of not less than
    16  [seven hundred fifty] eight hundred dollars nor more than  one  thousand
    17  dollars  or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or
    18  by both such fine and imprisonment.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03163-01-3