Bill Text: NY A08144 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits passing a school bus on a public highway with six or more lanes when traveling the opposite direction of the stopped school bus while separated from such school bus by a median or permanent barrier.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A08144 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08144-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8144

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to stopping for
          a school bus on a public highway with six or more lanes

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (a) of section 1174 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 597 of the laws of 1990, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (a)  The  driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, street or private
     5  road upon meeting or overtaking from either  direction  any  school  bus
     6  marked  and  equipped as provided in subdivision twenty of section three
     7  hundred seventy-five of this chapter which has  stopped  on  the  public
     8  highway,  street  or  private  road  for  the  purpose  of  receiving or
     9  discharging any passengers, or which has stopped because a school bus in
    10  front of it has stopped to receive or discharge  any  passengers,  shall
    11  stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in opera-
    12  tion  on said school bus a red visual signal as specified in subdivision
    13  twenty of section three hundred seventy-five of this  chapter  and  said
    14  driver  shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion, or until
    15  signaled by the driver or a police officer to proceed.  Provided, howev-
    16  er, that a vehicle shall not be required to stop for a school bus  which
    17  is  stopped  for  the purpose of receiving or discharging any passengers
    18  when such vehicle is traveling on a public highway composed of at  least
    19  six  lanes, is traveling in the opposite direction of the stopped school
    20  bus and is separated from such school  bus  by  a  median  or  permanent
    21  barrier.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  and in addition to the
    22  provisions of section one hundred thirty-four of this chapter, the  term
    23  "public highway" shall mean any area used for the parking of motor vehi-
    24  cles  or  used  as a driveway located on the grounds of a school or of a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  board of cooperative educational services facility or any area used as a
     2  means of access to and egress from such school or facility.
     3    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
     4  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
     5  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
     6  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
     7  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.