Senate Bill S8603

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to owner liability for failure of operator to stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm

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Current Bill Status - Stricken


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8603 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9322
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1174-a, V & T L; amd §19-610, NYC Ad Cd; amd §25, Chap 145 of 2019

2023-S8603 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands provisions relating to owner liability for failure of operator to stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm; extends such program until 2029.

2023-S8603 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8603 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8603
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 and the administrative  code
   of the city of New York, in relation to owner liability for failure of
   operator  to  stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and
   stop-arm; and to amend chapter 145 of the laws of  2019  amending  the
   vehicle  and  traffic law relating to school bus photo violation moni-
   toring systems and owner liability for failure of operator to stop for
   a school bus displaying a red visual signal, in relation to the effec-
   tiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 1174-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
 chapter 145 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   § 1174-a. Owner liability for failure of operator to stop for a school
 bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm. (a) 1.  Notwithstanding
 any  other  provision  of  law,  a county, city, town or village located
 within a school district ("district") is hereby authorized and empowered
 to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration
 program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for  fail-
 ure  of an operator thereof to comply with section eleven hundred seven-
 ty-four of this [chapter] ARTICLE when meeting a school bus  marked  and
 equipped  as provided in subdivisions twenty and twenty-one-c of section
 three hundred seventy-five of this chapter and operated in such  county,
 city,  town  or  village,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions of this
 section. Such demonstration program shall  empower  such  county,  city,
 town  or village to install and operate school bus photo violation moni-
 toring systems which may be stationary  or  mobile,  and  which  may  be
 installed,  pursuant  to an agreement with a school district within such
 county, city, town or village, on school buses  owned  and  operated  by
 such  school  district  or privately owned and operated for compensation
 under contract with  such  district.  Provided,  however,  that  (a)  no
 stationary  school  bus  photo  violation  monitoring  system  shall  be
 installed or operated by a county, city, town or village except on road-
 ways under the jurisdiction of such county, city, town or  village,  and
 (b)  no  mobile  school  bus  photo violation monitoring system shall be
 installed or operated on any such school buses unless such county, city,
              

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