New York A 4793: Relates to the passing of stopped school buses

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A04793 Summary:

BILL NOA04793 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown E

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COSPNSRBeephan, Mikulin

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§375 & 1174, V & T L

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Relates to the passing of stopped school buses; requires each omnibus having a seating capacity in excess of fifteen children or more to have at least one flashing yellow signal lamp on the front thereof and at least one flashing yellow signal lamp on the rear thereof to indicate that such omnibus shall be stopping momentarily; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a method whereby any violation of section 1174 of the vehicle and traffic law shall be issued to the operator of such vehicle and not to the owner of such vehicle; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOA04793 

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02/06/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4793

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 6, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN, BEEPHAN, MIKULIN -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the passing
 of stopped school buses

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 20 of section 375 of the vehi-
 2 cle and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 204 and 221 of
 3 the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) For each such omnibus having a seating capacity in excess of
 5 fifteen children, there shall be colored flashing signal lamps conform-
 6 ing to regulations prescribed by the commissioner on the front and on
 7 the rear thereof, including at least one flashing yellow signal lamp on
 8 the front thereof and at least one flashing yellow signal lamp on the
 9 rear thereof and at least one flashing red signal lamp on the front
 10 thereof and at least one flashing red signal lamp on the rear thereof.
 11 For each such omnibus having a seating capacity of not more than fifteen
 12 children, there shall be colored flashing signal lamps conforming to
 13 regulations prescribed by the commissioner facing the front and facing
 14 the rear thereof, and at least one flashing yellow signal lamp facing
 15 the front thereof and at least one flashing yellow signal lamp facing
 16 the rear thereof and at least one flashing red signal lamp facing the
 17 front thereof and at least one flashing red signal lamp facing the rear
 18 thereof. The driver of every such vehicle shall keep such red signal
 19 lamps lighted whenever passengers are being received or discharged or
 20 whenever [he] such driver has stopped within fifty feet to the rear of a
 21 vehicle with such red signal lamps lighted, and shall light [all other]
 22 the required flashing yellow signal lamps, as a warning, prior to stop-
 23 ping to receive or discharge passengers in accordance with regulations
 24 prescribed by the commissioner.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07271-01-5

 A. 4793 2

 1 § 2. Subdivisions (a) and (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and traf-
 2 fic law, subdivision (a) as amended by chapter 597 of the laws of 1990
 3 and subdivision (c) as amended by chapter 433 of the laws of 2024, are
 4 amended and a new subdivision (e) is added to read as follows:
 5 (a) The driver of a vehicle upon a public highway, street or private
 6 road upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus
 7 marked and equipped as provided in subdivision twenty of section three
 8 hundred seventy-five of this chapter which has stopped on the public
 9 highway, street or private road for the purpose of receiving or
 10 discharging any passengers, or which has stopped because a school bus in
 11 front of it has stopped to receive or discharge any passengers, shall
 12 stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in opera-
 13 tion on [said] such school bus a flashing yellow signal lamp or a red
 14 visual