Bill Text: NY S01995 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the operator of a vehicle overtaking a bicycle from behind; not less than three feet distance.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01995 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01995-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1995--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. O'MARA, CARLUCCI, FUNKE, HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to operators of a vehicle overtaking a bicycle from behind The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1122-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by 2 chapter 413 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 1122-a. Overtaking a bicycle. The operator of a vehicle overtaking, 4 from behind, a bicycle proceeding on the same side of a roadway shall 5 pass to the left of such bicycle at a [safe] distance of not less than 6 three feet until safely clear thereof. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 8 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07106-03-7
