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Assembly Bill A2246

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the penalties for passing a stopped school bus

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2019-A2246 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4017
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §510, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A8191, S3099
2013-2014: A6610, S1878
2015-2016: A10078, S1634
2017-2018: A719, S1064
2021-2022: A3644, S1636
2023-2024: A5009, S1080

2019-A2246 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires suspension of a driver's license for a period of 60 days when a driver is convicted of passing a stopped school bus twice in 18 months.

2019-A2246 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2246
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GUNTHER, CUSICK, D'URSO, CROUCH, RAIA -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
   the 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. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 510 of the  vehicle
 and  traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xviii) to read
 as follows:
   (XVIII) FOR A PERIOD OF SIXTY DAYS WHERE THE HOLDER IS CONVICTED OF  A
 VIOLATION  OF ANY PROVISION OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED
 SEVENTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER WITHIN A PERIOD OF  EIGHTEEN  MONTHS  OF  A
 PREVIOUS VIOLATION OF SUCH SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing 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.
                                                            LBD00903-01-9

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