Bill Text: NY A08151 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes passing school busses on public highways when the highway has at least six lanes and is divided by a median or permanent barrier and the school bus is traveling in the opposite direction of the passing vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-10-18 - enacting clause stricken [A08151 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08151-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8151

                               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  passing
          school busses on certain public highways

          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
    25  board of cooperative educational services facility or any area used as a
    26  means of access to and egress from such school or facility.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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