Bill Text: NY S09504 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases penalties for violation of overtaking and passing a school bus.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3120A [S09504 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09504-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9504--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
          penalties for violation of overtaking and passing a school bus

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 254 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (c) Every person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a)  of  this
     5  section  shall: for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
     6  not less than two hundred fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  four  hundred
     7  dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such
     8  fine  and  imprisonment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of
     9  which were committed within a period of three years, such  person  shall
    10  be punished by a fine of not less than six hundred dollars nor more than
    11  seven  hundred  fifty  dollars  or by imprisonment for not more than one
    12  hundred eighty days or by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  upon  a
    13  conviction of a third or subsequent violation, all of which were commit-
    14  ted  within  a period of three years, such person shall be punished by a
    15  fine of not less than seven hundred fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  one
    16  thousand  five  hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one
    17  hundred eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law,  and  shall  apply  to
    20  violations occurring on and after such date.  Effective immediately, the
    21  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    22  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    23  to be 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.
                                                                   LBD07685-03-4