New York S 716: Increases the penalties for sexual performances by a child and provides for consecutive sentencing upon certain multiple convictions

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S00716 Summary:

BILL NOS00716 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09179

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SPONSORRHOADS

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COSPNSRCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, MATTERA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1174, V & T L

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Relates to the passing of stopped school buses on divided highways; provides that vehicles traveling in the opposite direction of a school bus on such highway shall not have to stop if a physical barrier is present between the different directions of travel.

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BILL NOS00716 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 716

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. RHOADS, MATTERA -- 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 the passing
 of stopped school buses on divided highways with four or more lanes
 and the location of school bus stops on divided highways with four or
 more lanes

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions (a) and (b) of section 1174 of the vehicle and
 2 traffic law, as amended by chapter 597 of the laws of 1990, are amended
 3 to read as follows:
 4 (a) The driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, street or private
 5 road upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus
 6 marked and equipped as provided in subdivision twenty of section three
 7 hundred seventy-five of this chapter which has stopped on the public
 8 highway, street or private road for the purpose of receiving or
 9 discharging any passengers, or which has stopped because a school bus in
 10 front of it has stopped to receive or discharge any passengers, shall
 11 stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in opera-
 12 tion on said school bus a red visual signal as specified in subdivision
 13 twenty of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter and said
 14 driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion, or until
 15 signaled by the driver or a police officer to proceed; provided, howev-
 16 er, the requirements of this subdivision shall not apply to the driver
 17 of a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction of a school bus on a
 18 divided highway which, for purposes of this section, shall be defined as
 19 a road with four or more lanes where there is a physical barrier between
 20 different directions of travel. For the purposes of this section, and in
 21 addition to the provisions of section one hundred thirty-four of this
 22 chapter, the term "public highway" shall mean any area used for the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02689-01-5

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 1 parking of motor vehicles or used as a driveway located on the grounds
 2 of a school or of a board of cooperative educational services facility
 3 or any area used as a means of access to and egress from such school or
 4 facility.
 5 (b) [The] Except on a divided highway as defined in subdivision (a) of
 6 this section, the driver of such school bus, when receiving or discharg-
 7 ing passengers who must cross a public highway, street or private road,
 8 shall instruct such passengers to cross in front of the bus and the
 9 driver thereof shall keep such school bus halted with red signal lights
 10 flashing until such passengers have reached the opposite side of such
 11 highway, street or private road. Whether such passengers are crossing
 12 such highway, street or private road or discharging to the same side of
 13 such highway, street or private road, the driver of such bus shall keep
 14 such school bus halted with red signal lights flashing until such
 15 passengers are at least fifteen feet from the bus and either off the
 16 highway, street or private road or on a sidewalk.
 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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