Bill Text: NY A05266 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the city of New York to establish the New York city school safety fund, which transfers fines collected from the city's photo speed violation monitoring program and fines from the overpassing of stopped school buses to the fund to be used for school initiatives relating to the safe travel of students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A05266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05266-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5266

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          the city of New York to establish the New York city school safety fund

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (p) to read as follows:
     3    (p)  1.  The  city  shall establish a fund to be known as the New York
     4  city school safety fund. Any fines or monies collected pursuant to  this
     5  section,  except  for any monies pending a proceeding before OATH, shall
     6  be deposited into such fund. Upon a final determination of a  proceeding
     7  before OATH, any fines or monies required to be paid by the liable party
     8  shall be deposited into such fund.
     9    2. Monies of the fund shall be available to the chancellor of the city
    10  school district of the city of New York, the commissioner of transporta-
    11  tion, and the police commissioner to fund school initiatives relating to
    12  the  safe  travel  of  students,  including  but not limited to, funding
    13  crossing guards, maintaining crosswalks, adding  and  maintaining  side-
    14  walks, installing stop signs, and upgrading infrastructure around school
    15  property.
    16    3.  Monies  of the fund shall not be transferred into the general fund
    17  of the city. Such monies shall  only  be  borrowed  for  other  purposes
    18  relating to the city only upon approval from the state legislature.
    19    §  2.  Section  1174 of vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
    20  new subdivision (c-1) to read as follows:
    21    (c-1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  any
    22  fines  or  monies collected in cities having a population of one million
    23  or more pursuant to subdivision (c) of this section shall  be  deposited
    24  into the New York city school safety fund established pursuant to subdi-
    25  vision (p) of section eleven hundred eighty-b of this chapter.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
     2  the amendments to section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law made  by
     3  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
     4  shall be deemed repealed therewith.