NY State Senate Bill 2013-S1064A

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 11, 2014	reported and committed to finance
Jan 09, 2014	print number 1064a
Jan 09, 2014	amend and recommit to transportation
Jan 08, 2014	referred to transportation returned to senate died in assembly
May 22, 2013	referred to transportation delivered to assembly passed senate
May 21, 2013	ordered to third reading cal.715 committee discharged and committed to rules
Mar 05, 2013	reported and committed to finance
Jan 09, 2013	referred to transportation

Votes

- May 22, 2013 - Floor Vote
  S1064A
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: May 22, 2013
      
      aye (61)
      
      Adams
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Avella
      
      Ball
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Espaillat
      
      Farley
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Fuschillo
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gipson
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Grisanti
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Martins
      
      Maziarz
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Brien
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sampson
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Smith
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tkaczyk
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      Zeldin
      
      excused (2)
      
      O'Mara
      
      Parker
  Mar 11, 2014 - Transportation Committee Vote
  S1064A
  
  19
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Transportation Committee Vote: Mar 11, 2014
      
      aye (19)
      
      Avella
      
      Carlucci
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gipson
      
      Kennedy
      
      Larkin
      
      Marcellino
      
      Maziarz
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Mara
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Young
      
      Zeldin

Bill Amendments

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2013-S1064 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8600
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1174, V & T L; amd §§120.04-a & 125.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:: S1064, A8600

2013-S1064 - Summary

Increases fines and penalties for passing a stopped school bus.

2013-S1064 - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S1064

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the penal law, in relation to
increasing fines and penalties for passing a stopped school bus

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Provides for increased monetary
penalties for passing a school bus and applies criminal penalties to
those who injure or kill a person while doing so.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 Subdivision C of Section
1174 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law is amended as follows:
(i) increases the range of fines for passing a school bus for the
first time from a minimum of $250 and a maximum of $400 to a minimum
of $400 and a maximum of $750.
(ii) increases the range of fines for passing a school bus for the
second time from a minimum of $600 and a maximum of $750 to a minimum
of $950 and a maximum of $1150.
(iii) increases the range of fines for
passing a school bus for the third time within a three year period
from a minimum of $750 and a maximum of $1000 to a minimum of $1150
to a maximum of $1500.
(iv) requires that a person who injures someone while passing a school

bus be charged with aggravated vehicular assault and if a person is
killed in the incident requires a charge of criminally negligent
homicide.

JUSTIFICATION:
The National Highway Transportation Administration
reports that each year, an average of 11 passengers under the age of
19 die in school bus accidents. Most of the most serious injuries and
deaths occur when children are hit by a school bus or by passing
motorists while getting on or off the bus.

More than 25 children each year die in pedestrian accidents involving
school buses. In fact, three times as many children are killed in
school bus accidents while getting on or off the bus than while
riding it.

Pedestrians account for more than 40 percent of school bus-related
fatalities. Many of these injuries occur when children are boarding
or exiting the school bus, due to the driver's "blind spot," which
extends approximately 10 feet around the bus.

These statistics clearly demonstrate the importance of strengthening
penalties against those who illegally pass a school bus, and
especially for those that injure another person while doing so.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
S.7388 of 2009-2010; Referred to Transportation
S.515A/A10755 of 2011-2012; Referred to Transportation

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:


None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2013-S1064 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1064

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  MAZIARZ,  DeFRANCISCO,  FUSCHILLO, LARKIN -- 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 penal law, in
  relation to increasing fines  and  penalties  for  passing  a  stopped
  school bus

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and  traffic
law,  as  amended by chapter 254 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
as follows:
  (c) Every person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a)  of  this
section shall BE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING FINES AND PENALTIES:
  (I)  for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less
than [two hundred fifty]  FOUR  HUNDRED  dollars  nor  more  than  [four
hundred]  SEVEN  HUNDRED  FIFTY  dollars or by imprisonment for not more
than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment;
  (II) for a conviction of  a  second  violation,  both  of  which  were
committed  within a period of three years, such person shall be punished
by a fine of not less than [six hundred dollars] NINE HUNDRED FIFTY  nor
more  than  [seven hundred fifty] ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY dollars
or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or by  both
such fine and imprisonment;
  (III)  upon  a  conviction  of a third or subsequent violation, all of
which were committed within a period of three years, such  person  shall
be  punished  by a fine of not less than [seven hundred fifty] ONE THOU-
SAND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY dollars nor more than [one thousand] ONE THOUSAND
FIVE HUNDRED dollars or by imprisonment for not more  than  one  hundred
eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02093-01-3

S. 1064                             2

  S  2.  Subdivision 6 of section 120.04-a of the penal law, as added by
chapter 496 of the laws of 2009, is amended and a new subdivision  7  is
added to read as follows:
  (6)  commits  such crime while operating a motor vehicle while a child
who is fifteen years of age or less is a passenger in such motor vehicle
and causes serious physical injury to such child[.]; OR
  (7) VIOLATES ANY  PROVISION  OF  SUBDIVISION  (A)  OF  SECTION  ELEVEN
HUNDRED  SEVENTY-FOUR  OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND IN THE COMMIS-
SION OF SUCH OFFENSE CAUSES INJURY TO A PERSON.
  S 3. Section 125.10 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
S 125.10 Criminally negligent homicide.
  A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when[, with]:
  1. WITH criminal negligence, he OR SHE causes  the  death  of  another
person[.]; OR
  2.  HE  OR  SHE  CAUSES  THE DEATH OF ANOTHER PERSON WHILE OPERATING A
MOTOR VEHICLE IN VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN  HUNDRED
SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
  Criminally negligent homicide is a class E felony.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8600
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1174, V & T L; amd §§120.04-a & 125.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:: S1064, A8600

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases fines and penalties for passing a stopped school bus.

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S1064A

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the
penal law, in relation to increasing fines and penalties for passing a
stopped school bus

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

Provides for increased monetary penalties for passing a school bus and
applies criminal penalties to those who injure or kill a person while
doing so.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 Subdivision C of Section 1174 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law
is amended as follows:

(i) increases the range of fines for passing a school bus for the
first time from a minimum of $250 and a maximum of $400 to a minimum
of $400 and a maximum of $750.

(ii) increases the range of fines for passing a school bus for the
second time from a minimum of $600 and a maximum of $750 to a minimum
of $950 and a maximum of $1150.

(iii) increases the range of fines for passing a school bus for the

third time within a three year period from a minimum of $750 and a
maximum of $1000 to a minimum of $1150 to a maximum of $1500.

(iv) requires that a person who injures someone while passing a school
bus be charged with aggravated vehicular assault and if a person is
killed in the incident requires a charge of criminally negligent
homicide.

JUSTIFICATION:

The National Highway Transportation Administration reports that each
year, an average of 11 passengers under the age of 19 die in school
bus accidents. Most of the most serious injuries and deaths occur when
children are hit by a school bus cr by passing motorists while getting
on or off the bus.

More than 25 children each year die in pedestrian accidents involving
school buses. In fact, three times as many children are killed in
school bus accidents while getting on or off the bus than while riding
it.

Pedestrians account for more than 40 percent of school bus-related
fatalities. Many of these injuries occur when children are boarding or
exiting the school bus, due to the driver's "blind spot," which
extends approximately 10 feet around the bus.

These statistics clearly demonstrate the importance of strengthening
penalties against those who illegally pass a school bus, and
especially for those that injure another person while doing'so.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:


S.7388 of 2009-2010; Referred to Transportation
S.515A/A10755 of 2011-2012; Referred to Transportation

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect immediately.

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 1064--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. MAZIARZ, AVELLA, DeFRANCISCO, LARKIN, SAVINO, YOUNG
  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
  the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
  Transportation  in  accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and  traffic  law  and  the  penal  law,  in
  relation  to  increasing  fines  and  penalties  for passing a stopped
  school bus

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 254 of the laws of 2002, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  (c)  Every  person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) of this
section shall BE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING FINES AND PENALTIES:
  (I) for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not  less
than  [two  hundred  fifty]  FOUR  HUNDRED  dollars  nor more than [four
hundred] SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY dollars or by  imprisonment  for  not  more
than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment;
  (II)  for  a  conviction  of  a  second  violation, both of which were
committed within a period of three years, such person shall be  punished
by  a fine of not less than [six hundred dollars] NINE HUNDRED FIFTY nor
more than [seven hundred fifty] ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED  FIFTY  dollars
or  by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or by both
such fine and imprisonment;
  (III) upon a conviction of a third or  subsequent  violation,  all  of
which  were  committed within a period of three years, such person shall
be punished by a fine of not less than [seven hundred fifty]  ONE  THOU-
SAND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY dollars nor more than [one thousand] ONE THOUSAND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                           LBD02093-02-3

S. 1064--A                          2

FIVE  HUNDRED  dollars  or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred
eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
  S  2.  Subdivision 6 of section 120.04-a of the penal law, as added by
chapter 496 of the laws of 2009, is amended and a new subdivision  7  is
added to read as follows:
  (6)  commits  such crime while operating a motor vehicle while a child
who is fifteen years of age or less is a passenger in such motor vehicle
and causes serious physical injury to such child[.]; OR
  (7) VIOLATES ANY  PROVISION  OF  SUBDIVISION  (A)  OF  SECTION  ELEVEN
HUNDRED  SEVENTY-FOUR  OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND IN THE COMMIS-
SION OF SUCH OFFENSE CAUSES INJURY TO A PERSON.
  S 3. Section 125.10 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
S 125.10 Criminally negligent homicide.
  A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when[, with]:
  1. WITH criminal negligence, he OR SHE causes  the  death  of  another
person[.]; OR
  2. HE OR SHE CAUSES THE DEATH OF ANOTHER PERSON OR PERSONS WHILE OPER-
ATING  A MOTOR VEHICLE IN VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN
HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
  Criminally negligent homicide is a class E felony.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S1064A

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

May 22, 2013 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: May 22, 2013

Mar 11, 2014 - Transportation Committee Vote

Transportation Committee Vote: Mar 11, 2014

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2013-S1064 - Details

2013-S1064 - Summary

2013-S1064 - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1064 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Details

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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2013-S1064 - Details

2013-S1064 - Summary

2013-S1064 - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1064 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Details

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1064A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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