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Assembly Bill A3148

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that vans or suburbans used as school buses cannot be so operated unless pupils are wearing seat belts

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2015-A3148 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3623, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7831
2011-2012: A3095, A8939
2013-2014: A5244
2017-2018: A7880

2015-A3148 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that no van or suburban motor vehicle shall be operated in the transportation of pupils to or from school unless all passengers in such vehicle are properly utilizing approved seat belts.

2015-A3148 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3148

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. TITONE, PAULIN, MARKEY, ROBINSON, HOOPER, TENNEY
  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DUPREY, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, McDONOUGH,
  SCHIMEL, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Educa-
  tion

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to the wearing of seat
  belts in certain vehicles used to transport pupils to or from school

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  3623 of the education law is
amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
  D. NO VAN OR SUBURBAN MOTOR VEHICLE SHALL BE OPERATED IN THE TRANSPOR-
TATION OF PUPILS TO OR FROM SCHOOL UNLESS ALL PASSENGERS IN SUCH VEHICLE
ARE PROPERLY UTILIZING APPROVED SEAT BELTS.
  S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03842-01-5

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