Bill Text: NY S06957 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus, school grounds or children's camp; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation, to promulgate rules and regulations for certain signage on school buses; relates to professional development school bus driver safety training seminars statewide.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S06957 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06957-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6957 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crimes of criminal trespass on school grounds or children's camp and criminal trespass on a school bus in the first and second degrees; to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain signage on school buses; and to amend the education law, in relation to professional development school bus driver safety training seminars The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 140.09 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 140.09 Criminal trespass on school grounds or children's camp. 4 A person is guilty of criminal trespass on school grounds or chil- 5 dren's camp when he or she commits the crime of criminal trespass in the 6 first degree pursuant to section 140.17 of this article and such build- 7 ing or grounds is utilized as an elementary or secondary school or a 8 children's overnight camp or a summer day camp as defined in section 9 thirteen hundred ninety-two of the public health law in violation of 10 conspicuously posted rules or regulations governing entry and use there- 11 of. 12 Criminal trespass on school grounds or children's camp is a class C 13 felony. 14 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 140.18 to read 15 as follows: 16 § 140.18 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the second degree. 17 1. A person is guilty of criminal trespass on a school bus in the 18 second degree when he or she: 19 (a) Willfully demolishes, destroys, defaces, injures, burns, or 20 damages any public school bus. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05651-01-3S. 6957 2 1 (b) Enters a public school bus while the door is open to load or 2 unload students, while at a railroad grade crossing, or after being 3 forbidden from doing so by the authorized school bus driver in charge of 4 the bus, or upon demand of a principal of a school to which the bus is 5 assigned or other duly authorized school system official. 6 (c) As an occupant of a public school bus, refuses to leave the bus on 7 demand of the authorized school bus driver in charge of the bus, or upon 8 demand of a principal of a school to which the bus is assigned or other 9 duly authorized school system official. 10 (d) Willfully stops, impedes, delays, or detains any public school bus 11 being operated for public school purposes. 12 2. Paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of subdivision one of this section 13 shall not apply to a child who is less than sixteen years of age or to 14 authorized school personnel who are boarding the school bus as part of 15 their job assignment. 16 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the second degree is a class A 17 misdemeanor. 18 § 3. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 140.19 to read 19 as follows: 20 § 140.19 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the first degree. 21 A person is guilty of criminal trespass on a school bus in the first 22 degree when he or she commits the crime of criminal trespass on a school 23 bus in the second degree pursuant to section 140.18 of this article and 24 when, in the course of committing such crime, he or she: 25 1. Possesses, or knows that another participant in the crime 26 possesses, an explosive or a deadly weapon; or 27 2. Possesses a firearm, rifle or shotgun, as those terms are defined 28 in section 265.00 of this part, and also possesses or has readily acces- 29 sible a quantity of ammunition which is capable of being discharged from 30 such firearm, rifle or shotgun; or 31 3. Knows that another participant in the crime possesses a firearm, 32 rifle or shotgun under circumstances described in subdivision two of 33 this section. 34 Criminal trespass on a school bus in the first degree is a class C 35 felony. 36 § 4. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a 37 new subdivision 21-k to read as follows: 38 21-k. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the commissioner of 39 transportation, promulgate rules and regulations for signage on school 40 buses advising that individuals may not enter the school bus unless 41 authorized by the school bus driver who is in charge of the bus and that 42 failure to comply may be subject to criminal charges. 43 § 5. Paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section 3650 of the education 44 law, as amended by chapter 181 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read 45 as follows: 46 c. Develop and conduct professional development school bus driver 47 safety training seminars statewide, which shall include but not be 48 limited to training related to techniques for managing violent inci- 49 dents, intrusions and active shooters on school buses. 50 § 6. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 51 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
