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Assembly Bill A10114

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires school buses to have windows made from bulletproof or ballistic glass

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2025-A10114 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L

2025-A10114 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school buses to have windows made from bulletproof or ballistic glass; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles and the commissioner of transportation to establish minimum standards and requirements for bulletproof or ballistic glass used.

2025-A10114 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10114
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
   school buses to have windows made from bulletproof or ballistic glass
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 21-k to read as follows:
   21-K. (A) EVERY SCHOOL BUS WHICH IS OWNED AND  OPERATED  BY  A  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT OR WHICH IS PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED FOR COMPENSATION UNDER
 CONTRACT  WITH  SUCH DISTRICT SHALL BE REQUIRED TO HAVE ALL WINDOWS MADE
 FROM BULLETPROOF OR BALLISTIC GLASS.
   (B) THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONJUNCTION  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OF TRANSPORTATION, SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO
 ESTABLISH MINIMUM STANDARDS AND  REQUIREMENTS  FOR  ANY  BULLETPROOF  OR
 BALLISTIC  GLASS  THAT  IS  INSTALLED  ON  SCHOOL BUSES PURSUANT TO THIS
 SUBDIVISION.
   (C) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "BULLETPROOF GLASS" OR  "BALLIS-
 TIC  GLASS"  SHALL MEAN A STRONG, TRANSPARENT MATERIAL MADE OF LAMINATED
 LAYERS OF GLASS AND TOUGH PLASTICS, SUCH AS POLYCARBONATE,  DESIGNED  TO
 RESIST  BULLETS AND OTHER PROJECTILES BY FLEXING, ABSORBING IMPACT ENER-
 GY, AND PREVENTING PENETRATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14443-01-6

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