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                                   8144
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 13, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to stopping for
   a school bus on a public highway with six or more lanes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision (a) of section 1174 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 597 of the laws of 1990, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   (a)  The  driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, street or private
 road upon meeting or overtaking from either  direction  any  school  bus
 marked  and  equipped as provided in subdivision twenty of section three
 hundred seventy-five of this chapter which has  stopped  on  the  public
 highway,  street  or  private  road  for  the  purpose  of  receiving or
 discharging any passengers, or which has stopped because a school bus in
 front of it has stopped to receive or discharge  any  passengers,  shall
 stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in opera-
 tion  on said school bus a red visual signal as specified in subdivision
 twenty of section three hundred seventy-five of this  chapter  and  said
 driver  shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion, or until
 signaled by the driver or a police officer to proceed.  PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, THAT A VEHICLE SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO STOP FOR A SCHOOL BUS  WHICH
 IS  STOPPED  FOR  THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING OR DISCHARGING ANY PASSENGERS
 WHEN SUCH VEHICLE IS TRAVELING ON A PUBLIC HIGHWAY COMPOSED OF AT  LEAST
 SIX  LANES, IS TRAVELING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF THE STOPPED SCHOOL
 BUS AND IS SEPARATED FROM SUCH SCHOOL  BUS  BY  A  MEDIAN  OR  PERMANENT
 BARRIER.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  and in addition to the
 provisions of section one hundred thirty-four of this chapter, the  term
 "public highway" shall mean any area used for the parking of motor vehi-
 cles  or  used  as a driveway located on the grounds of a school or of a

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 board of cooperative educational services facility or any area used as a
 means of access to and egress from such school or facility.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
 for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.