Assembly Bill A4756

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to owner liability for failure of a driver to stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm

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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
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2025-A4756 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1174-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9696

2025-A4756 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the fine schedule for owner liability for failure of a vehicle operator to stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm.

2025-A4756 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4756
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. E. BROWN, ANGELINO, BEEPHAN, McDONOUGH, MIKULIN,
   LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO, HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  amount
   of  owner  liability  for  failure of a vehicle operator to stop for a
   school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision (e) of section 1174-a of the vehicle and traf-
 fic law, as added by chapter 145 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (e) An owner liable for a violation  of  subdivision  (a)  of  section
 eleven  hundred  seventy-four of this article pursuant to a local law or
 ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall be liable for  monetary
 penalties in accordance with a schedule of fines and penalties to be set
 forth in such local law or ordinance, except that if a city by local law
 has  authorized  the  adjudication  of such owner liability by a parking
 violations bureau, such schedule shall be promulgated  by  such  bureau.
 The liability of the owner pursuant to this section shall be two hundred
 fifty  dollars  for  [a first] EACH violation[, two hundred seventy-five
 dollars for a second violation both of which  were  committed  within  a
 period  of  eighteen  months,  and  three hundred dollars for a third or
 subsequent violation all of which were  committed  within  a  period  of
 eighteen  months];  provided,  however, that such local law or ordinance
 may provide for an additional  penalty  not  in  excess  of  twenty-five
 dollars  for  each  violation  for the failure to respond to a notice of
 liability within the prescribed time period.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to subdivision (e) of section 1174-a of the vehicle and
 traffic law made by section one of this act shall not affect the  repeal
 of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07310-01-5

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