Assembly Actions -
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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S226
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S226 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Transportation
- Law Section:
- Vehicle and Traffic Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง383 & 1229-c, V & T L
2009-S226 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S226 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring all school buses in operation to be equipped with safety belts and requiring use of safety belts on school buses PURPOSE/SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : To require all pre-1987 manufactured school buses to be retrofitted with safety belts, and to require such belts be used by all students being transported. Amends subdivision 5 of section 383 of the vehicle and traffic law, and subdivisions 1, 4, and 11 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law to require that all school buses be equipped with seat belts and those belts will be required to be used. JUSTIFICATION : New York State's current vehicle and traffic law requires all buses manufactured after July 1, 1987 to be equipped with seat belts. However, all buses in use that were manufactured before that date have no such requirement. Additionally, the law does not mandate use of the seat belts that do exist. Studies conducted by the Federal Government and by traffic safety experts have clearly shown that seat belt usage in school buses prevents deaths and injuries. Seat belts are necessary to prevent children from flying forward and sustaining the most serious types of injuries. The latest findings published by the
2009-S226 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 226 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- 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 requiring all school buses in operation to be equipped with safety belts and requiring use of safety belts on school buses THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 383 of the vehi- cle and traffic law, as added by chapter 747 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows: (b) Passenger seat safety belts for existing school buses. Any school bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of this chapter[, which is scheduled for retrofitting pursuant to action by a board of education or board of trustees under section thirty-six hundred thirty-five-a of the education law] shall be retrofitted so that all passenger seats on such vehicles are equipped with seat safety belts [and additional padding of a type and specification as approved by the commissioner of transportation through the adoption of rules and regulations. Such rules and regulations shall provide that when any contactable surface of the school bus as specified in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, 49CFR Section 571.222 is impacted from any direction at twenty-two feet per second by the head form, the axial acceleration at the center of gravity of the head form shall be such that the head form impact requirement shall not exceed eight hundred. Furthermore, the commission- er shall have the power through rules and regulations to exempt certain design school buses from retrofitting. In granting such exemptions, the commissioner shall consider safety factors, structural integrity of the school buses and any other items deemed necessary to preserve the safety and welfare of the school bus passengers. Provided further however that the commissioner of transportation shall not authorize retrofitting of any school bus manufactured prior to April first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven].
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