Bill Text: NY S02570 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate rules and regulations to require that every school bus be equipped with a stop-arm on each side of the bus regardless of seating capacity; prohibits the operation of a school bus on public highways without a functioning stop-arm on each side of such bus.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02570 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02570-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2570

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          every school bus to be equipped with a stop-arm on each side

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 21-c of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 430 of the laws of 2001, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    21-c.  (a)  The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of
     5  transportation, shall promulgate rules and regulations for  the  use  of
     6  stop-arms  on  school  buses which shall include provisions for a second
     7  stop-arm to be located on the driver's side as close as is practical  to
     8  the rear corner of the bus. Every school bus designed with a capacity of
     9  forty-five persons or more, and manufactured for use in this state on or
    10  after  January  first,  two thousand two shall be equipped with a second
    11  stop-arm in compliance with such regulations.
    12    (b) The commissioner shall further promulgate,  in  consultation  with
    13  the  commissioner  of  transportation,  rules and regulations to require
    14  that every school bus, regardless of seating capacity, include  a  stop-
    15  arm  on  each side of the bus. No school bus shall be operated or driven
    16  upon the public highways of this state without a functioning stop-arm on
    17  each side of such bus.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    19  which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,  the  addition,
    20  amendment  and/or  repeal  of  any  rule or regulation necessary for the
    21  implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized  to  be
    22  made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06939-01-3