Bill Text: NY S01064 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1064 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Requires suspension of a driver's license for a period of 60 days when a driver is convicted of passing a stopped school bus twice in 18 months.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-14 - referred to transportation [S01064 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1064
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  BONACIC,  FELDER, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, LARKIN -- 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 increasing
          the penalties for passing a stopped 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, in addition to any other penalty imposed by this chapter shall:
     6  for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not  less  than
     7  two  hundred  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than four hundred dollars or by
     8  imprisonment for not more than thirty days or  by  both  such  fine  and
     9  imprisonment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of which were
    10  committed  within a period of three years, such person shall be punished
    11  by a fine of not less than six  hundred  dollars  nor  more  than  seven
    12  hundred  fifty  dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred
    13  eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a conviction  of
    14  a  third  or  subsequent violation, all of which were committed within a
    15  period of three years, such person shall be punished by a  fine  of  not
    16  less than seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars
    17  or  by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or by both
    18  such fine and imprisonment.
    19    § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 510 of  the  vehicle  and
    20  traffic  law  is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xviii) to read as
    21  follows:
    22    (xviii) for a period of sixty days where the holder  is  convicted  of
    23  two  or  more violations within a period of ten years of subdivision (a)
    24  of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this chapter.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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