New York S 9395: Relates to enforcement of owner liability for failure of an operator to stop for a school bus

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S09395 Summary:

BILL NOS09395 

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SAME ASSAME AS A11080

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SPONSORBYNOE

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COSPNSRMYRIE, SUTTON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1174-a, V & T L

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Provides that the use of school bus photo violation monitoring systems shall be limited to the geographic boundaries of school districts which adopt resolutions opting into such programs.

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BILL NOS09395 

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03/09/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9395

 IN SENATE

 March 9, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BYNOE -- 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, in relation to owner
 liability for failure of an operator to stop for a school bus

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs 1 and 1-a of subdivision (a) of section 1174-a
 2 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part AA of
 3 chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, are amended to read as follows:
 4 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county, city, town or
 5 village located within a school district ("district") is hereby author-
 6 ized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance estab-
 7 lishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner
 8 of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with subdivi-
 9 sion (a) of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this article when
 10 meeting a school bus marked and equipped as provided in subdivisions
 11 twenty and twenty-one-c of section three hundred seventy-five of this
 12 chapter and operated in such county, city, town or village, in accord-
 13 ance with the provisions of this section. Such demonstration program
 14 shall empower such county, city, town or village to install and operate
 15 school bus photo violation monitoring systems which may be stationary or
 16 mobile, and which may be installed, pursuant to an agreement with a
 17 school district within such county, city, town or village, on school
 18 buses owned and operated by such school district or privately owned and
 19 operated for compensation under contract with such district. Provided,
 20 however, that (a) no stationary school bus photo violation monitoring
 21 system shall be installed or operated by a county, city, town or village
 22 except on roadways under the jurisdiction of such county, city, town or
 23 village, and (b) no mobile school bus photo violation monitoring system
 24 shall be installed or operated on any such school buses unless such
 25 county, city, town or village and such district enter into an agreement
 26 for such installation and operation. Mobile school bus photo violation
 27 monitoring systems installed pursuant to this section shall only be
 28 operated within the boundaries of a participating school district. The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14082-03-6

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 1 county, city, town or village shall maintain and transmit a list of
 2 participating school districts and their bounded locations to any third-
 3 party vendor which operates a photo violation monitoring system. A
 4 vendor shall disable the operation of mobile bus photo violation moni-
 5 toring systems outside such geographic boundaries. Nothing in this
 6 paragraph shall be deemed to limit the authority of a law enforcement
 7 officer to enforce the provisions of section eleven hundred seventy-four
 8 of this article.
 9 1-a. Any county, city, town or village, located within a school
 10 district, that has adopted a local law or ordinance pursuant to this
 11 section establishing a demonstration program imposing liability on the
 12 owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with
 13 subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this article
 14 when meeting a school bus marked and equipped as provided in subdivi-
 15 sions twenty and twenty-one-c of section three hundred