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Assembly Bill A8151

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes passing school busses on certain public highways in certain situations

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2023-A8151 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1174, V & T L

2023-A8151 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes passing school busses on public highways when the highway has at least six lanes and is divided by a median or permanent barrier and the school bus is traveling in the opposite direction of the passing vehicle.

2023-A8151 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8151
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic  law,  in  relation  to  passing
   school busses on certain public highways
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1174 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 597 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (a) The driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, street  or  private
 road  upon  meeting  or  overtaking from either direction any school bus
 marked and equipped as provided in subdivision twenty of  section  three
 hundred  seventy-five  of  this  chapter which has stopped on the public
 highway, street  or  private  road  for  the  purpose  of  receiving  or
 discharging any passengers, or which has stopped because a school bus in
 front  of  it  has stopped to receive or discharge any passengers, shall
 stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in opera-
 tion on said school bus a red visual signal as specified in  subdivision
 twenty  of  section  three hundred seventy-five of this chapter and said
 driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion, or  until
 signaled  by the driver or a police officer to proceed; PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, THAT A VEHICLE SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO STOP FOR A SCHOOL BUS  WHICH
 IS  STOPPED  FOR  THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING OR DISCHARGING ANY PASSENGERS
 WHEN SUCH VEHICLE IS TRAVELING ON A PUBLIC HIGHWAY COMPOSED OF AT  LEAST
 SIX  LANES, IS TRAVELING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF THE STOPPED SCHOOL
 BUS AND IS SEPARATED FROM SUCH SCHOOL  BUS  BY  A  MEDIAN  OR  PERMANENT
 BARRIER.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  and in addition to the
 provisions of section one hundred thirty-four of this chapter, the  term
 "public highway" shall mean any area used for the parking of motor vehi-
 cles  or  used  as a driveway located on the grounds of a school or of a
 board of cooperative educational services facility or any area used as a
 means of access to and egress from such school or facility.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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