Assembly Bill A11330

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Implements combination lap safety and shoulder harness seat safety belts and requiring students use safety belts on school buses

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  • 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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2017-A11330 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8863
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§383 & 1229-c, V & T L; amd §3635-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A3501, S4939
2021-2022: A4413, S4810

2017-A11330 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Implements combination lap safety and shoulder harness seat safety belts; requires students use safety belts on school buses.

2017-A11330 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   11330
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 19, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Abinanti) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law and the education law, in
   relation to implementing combination lap safety and  shoulder  harness
   seat  safety  belts  and requiring students use safety belts on school
   buses

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of section 383 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 747 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   5. (a) Passenger seat safety belts for school buses. Every school bus,
 as  defined  in  section one hundred forty-two of this chapter, manufac-
 tured for use in this state on and after July first,  [nineteen  hundred
 eighty-seven]  TWO  THOUSAND  NINETEEN,  shall  be  designed so that all
 passenger seats on such vehicle are equipped with COMBINATION LAP SAFETY
 AND SHOULDER HARNESS seat safety belts and increased seat  back  padding
 on  passenger  seats  of  a  type  and  specification as approved by the
 commissioner of transportation through the adoption of rules  and  regu-
 lations. Such rules and regulations shall provide that when any contact-
 able  surface of the school bus, as specified in the Federal Motor Vehi-
 cle Safety Standard, 49  CFR  Section  571.222,  is  impacted  from  any
 direction  at  twenty-two  feet  per  second by the head form, the axial
 acceleration at the center of gravity of the head  form  shall  be  such
 that the head form impact requirement shall not exceed eight hundred.
   (b)  Passenger COMBINATION LAP SAFETY AND SHOULDER HARNESS seat safety
 belts for existing school buses. [Any] EVERY school bus, as  defined  in
 section  one  hundred  forty-two of this chapter, which is scheduled for
 retrofitting pursuant to action by a board  of  education  or  board  of
 trustees under section thirty-six hundred thirty-five-a of the education
 law  NOT  EQUIPPED WITH COMBINATION LAP SAFETY AND SHOULDER HARNESS SEAT
 SAFETY BELTS shall be retrofitted so that all passenger  seats  on  such
 vehicles  are  equipped with COMBINATION LAP SAFETY AND SHOULDER HARNESS
 seat safety belts and additional padding of a type and specification  as
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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