New York A 5992: Requires the city of New York to establish the New York city school safety fund

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A05992 Summary:

BILL NOA05992 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORReilly

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COSPNSRNovakhov, DeStefano

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1180-b & 1174, V & T L

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Requires the city of New York to establish the New York city school safety fund, which transfers fines collected from the city's photo speed violation monitoring program and fines from the overpassing of stopped school buses to the fund to be used for school initiatives relating to the safe travel of students.

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02/25/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5992

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
 the city of New York to establish the New York city school safety fund

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision (p) to read as follows:
 3 (p) 1. The city shall establish a fund to be known as the New York
 4 city school safety fund. Any fines or monies collected pursuant to this
 5 section, except for any monies pending a proceeding before OATH, shall
 6 be deposited into such fund. Upon a final determination of a proceeding
 7 before OATH, any fines or monies required to be paid by the liable party
 8 shall be deposited into such fund.
 9 2. Monies of the fund shall be available to the chancellor of the city
 10 school district of the city of New York, the commissioner of transporta-
 11 tion, and the police commissioner to fund school initiatives relating to
 12 the safe travel of students, including but not limited to, funding
 13 crossing guards, maintaining crosswalks, adding and maintaining side-
 14 walks, installing stop signs, and upgrading infrastructure around school
 15 property.
 16 3. Monies of the fund shall not be transferred into the general fund
 17 of the city. Such monies shall only be borrowed for other purposes
 18 relating to the city only upon approval from the state legislature.
 19 § 2. Section 1174 of vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
 20 new subdivision (c-1) to read as follows:
 21 (c-1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
 22 fines or monies collected in cities having a population of one million
 23 or more pursuant to subdivision (c) of this section shall be deposited
 24 into the New York city school safety fund established pursuant to subdi-
 25 vision (p) of section eleven hundred eighty-b of this chapter.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05517-01-5

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 1 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
 2 the amendments to section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law made by
 3 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
 4 shall be deemed repealed therewith.

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