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Senate Bill S10694

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus

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2025-S10694 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3492
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1174, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10636
2017-2018: A5845
2019-2020: A2934
2021-2022: A3218
2023-2024: A2515

2025-S10694 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus; provides that for the first conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $350 nor more than $500; provides that for a second conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $800; also provides that for a third conviction a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $800 nor more than $1500.

2025-S10694 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10694
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 11, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
   the penalties for passing a school bus with its red lights illuminated
   indicating that it is picking up or discharging students
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 433 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (c) Every person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a)  of  this
 section  shall: for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
 not less than [two] THREE hundred fifty dollars  nor  more  than  [four]
 FIVE hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or
 by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  for  a  conviction of a second
 violation, both of which were committed within a period of three  years,
 such  person  shall  be  punished  by a fine of not less than [six] FIVE
 hundred dollars nor  more  than  [seven  hundred  fifty]  EIGHT  HUNDRED
 dollars  or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or
 by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a  conviction  of  a  third  or
 subsequent  violation,  all  of  which were committed within a period of
 three years, such person shall be punished by a fine of  not  less  than
 [seven  hundred  fifty] EIGHT HUNDRED dollars nor more than one thousand
 five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more  than  one  hundred
 eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07458-01-5

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