Bill Text: NY A02934 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus; provides that for the first conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $350 nor more than $500; provides that for a second conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $800; also provides that for a third conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $800 nor more than $1000.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-12)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A02934 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02934-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2934--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DILAN, RIVERA, DenDEKKER, SANTABARBARA, THIELE, ARROYO, SAYEGH, EPSTEIN, M. G. MILLER, DICKENS, ABBATE, COLTON, BUCHWALD, NORRIS, STERN, ORTIZ, CRUZ, CROUCH, DeSTEFANO, REILLY, D'URSO, GIGLIO, BYRNE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DE LA ROSA, ENGLEBRIGHT, FITZPATRICK, GALEF, TITUS -- read once and referred 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 increasing the penalties for passing a school bus with its red lights illuminated indicating that it is picking up or discharging students 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] three hundred fifty dollars nor more 7 than [four] five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than 8 thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a conviction of a 9 second violation, both of which were committed within a period of three 10 years, such person shall be punished by a fine of not less than [six] 11 five hundred dollars nor more than [seven hundred fifty] eight hundred 12 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or 13 by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a conviction of a third or 14 subsequent violation, all of which were committed within a period of 15 three years, such person shall be punished by a fine of not less than 16 [seven hundred fifty] eight hundred dollars nor more than one thousand 17 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or 18 by both such fine and imprisonment. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04792-03-9
