Bill Text: NY S03558 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3558 (Prior Session Legislation)

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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03558 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03558-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3558--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 8, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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
          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.
                                                                   LBD04792-02-9