Senate Bill S6241

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows boards of cooperative educational services to install school bus stop sign cameras

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • 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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2023-S6241 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1174-a, V & T L; amd §1950, Ed L

2023-S6241 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows boards of cooperative educational services to install school bus stop sign cameras.

2023-S6241 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6241 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6241
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBER  -- 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  education  law,  in
   relation  to  allowing  boards  of cooperative educational services to
   install school bus stop sign cameras

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs  1,  1-a,  1-b,  2 and 3 of subdivision (a) of
 section 1174-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by  chapter  145
 of the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county, city, town or
 village  located  within  a  school  district ("district") OR A BOARD OF
 COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES  ("BOCES")  is  hereby  authorized  and
 empowered  to  adopt  and  amend a local law or ordinance establishing a
 demonstration program imposing monetary liability  on  the  owner  of  a
 vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with section eleven
 hundred  seventy-four  of  this chapter when meeting a school bus marked
 and equipped as provided in  subdivisions  twenty  and  twenty-one-c  of
 section  three hundred seventy-five of this chapter and operated in such
 county, city, town or village, in accordance with the provisions of this
 section. Such demonstration program shall  empower  such  county,  city,
 town  or village to install and operate school bus photo violation moni-
 toring systems which may be stationary  or  mobile,  and  which  may  be
 installed,  pursuant  to  an  agreement  with a school district OR BOCES
 within such county, city, town or village, on  school  buses  owned  and
 operated  by  such school district OR BOCES or privately owned and oper-
 ated for compensation  under  contract  with  such  district  OR  BOCES.
 Provided,  however,  that  (a)  no stationary school bus photo violation
 monitoring system shall be installed or operated by a county, city, town
 or village except on roadways under the  jurisdiction  of  such  county,
 city,  town  or  village,  and  (b) no mobile school bus photo violation
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09320-01-3
              

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