NY State Senate Bill

Senate Bill S4508

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 18, 2025	reported and committed to finance
Feb 06, 2025	referred to transportation

Votes

- Mar 18, 2025 - Transportation Committee Vote
  S4508
  
  13
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Transportation Committee Vote: Mar 18, 2025
      
      aye (13)
      
      Bynoe
      
      Cooney
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Hinchey
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Mattera
      
      Oberacker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos

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2025-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4251
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1640-t, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S8099
2021-2022: S2880
2023-2024: S2515, A5001

2025-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal to ensure all vehicular traffic is stopped while pedestrians are crossing in the same intersection.

2025-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4508

SPONSOR: RAMOS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of
student arrival and dismissal

 
PURPOSE:

Mandates scramble crosswalks, adjacent to schools during hours of opera-
tion, allowing pedestrians to cross without any vehicular traffic to
protect students and families from being struck

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 Amends VAT to add section 1640-s, which mandates scramble
crosswalks leading to and from schools during weekdays at 8:00 AM to
4:00 PM in cities of one million or more; describes vehicular, cycling,
and pedestrian traffic rules during that time. Additionally, defines
scramble crosswalks

Section 2 Sets effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As of February 2020, 232 cyclists and 819 pedestrians have been injured
on New York City streets with 11 pedestrians killed. The NYPD Motor
Vehicle Collision Report Statistics identifies error or confusion by
pedestrians or bikes, failure to yield right-of-way, traffic control
disregard, and turning improperly as some contributing factors to injury
and fatal collisions. Decreased education funding has limited transpor-
tation options for school districts. Many students walk to and from
school, increasing pedestrian traffic during school hours of operation.
The implementation of pedestrian scramble crosswalks will increase the
safety of pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles limiting chances of injury
and death.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-24: S2515C (Ramos) - Passed the Senate / A5001B (Cunningham) -
Referred to Transportation

2021-22: S2880 (Ramos) - Referred to Transportation

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect 90 days after it becomes law.

2025-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4508
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS, ADDABBO, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
   LIU, MAY, PARKER, SEPULVEDA, WEBB -- 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 establishing
   scramble  crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times
   of student arrival and dismissal
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
 section 1640-t to read as follows:
   § 1640-T. SCRAMBLE CROSSWALKS IN  CITIES  WITH  A  POPULATION  OF  ONE
 MILLION  OR MORE. 1. THERE SHALL BE SCRAMBLE CROSSWALKS IN CITIES WITH A
 POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE LEADING TO AND FROM  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS
 DURING  TIMES OF STUDENT ARRIVAL AND DISMISSAL. SUCH SCRAMBLE CROSSWALKS
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:
   (A) SCRAMBLE CROSSWALKS SHALL OPERATE ON WEEKDAYS  BETWEEN  8:00  A.M.
 AND 4:00 P.M.;
   (B) PEDESTRIANS SHALL WAIT UNTIL A PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL SIGNAL INDICATES
 A SIGN TO WALK;
   (C)  VEHICLES SHALL NOT TURN RIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION WHILE THE TRAF-
 FIC SIGNAL INDICATES A RED LIGHT;
   (D) BICYCLISTS MAY PROCEED WITH PEDESTRIANS WHEN A  PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL
 SIGNAL INDICATES A SIGN TO WALK, PROVIDED HOWEVER, SUCH BICYCLISTS SHALL
 YIELD THE RIGHT OF WAY TO ALL PEDESTRIANS IN THE INTERSECTION;
   (E)  BICYCLISTS  MAY  PROCEED WITH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC WHILE THE TRAFFIC
 SIGNAL INDICATES A GREEN LIGHT; AND
   (F) SIGNS SHALL BE ERECTED  AT  SUCH  INTERSECTIONS  WITH  A  SCRAMBLE
 CROSSWALK  INDICATING THAT NO PERSON SHALL ENTER THE INTERSECTION UNLESS
 A PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL SIGNAL INDICATES THAT ALL PEDESTRIANS MAY WALK.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION,  "SCRAMBLE  CROSSWALK"  MEANS  A
 CROSSWALK  WITH  A  TRAFFIC SIGNAL WHICH TEMPORARILY STOPS ALL VEHICULAR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04070-01-5

 S. 4508                             2
 
 TRAFFIC WHILE A PEDESTRIAN-CONTROL SIGNAL INDICATES THAT ALL PEDESTRIANS
 AT THE INTERSECTION SHALL CROSS THE INTERSECTION AT THE SAME TIME.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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