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A00172 Summary:
BILL NO | A00172 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S03276 |
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SPONSOR | Gantt |
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COSPNSR | Colton |
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MLTSPNSR | Galef |
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Add §223-a, amd §1809, V & T L; amd §3650, Ed L; add §89-i, St Fin L | |
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Provides for the transfer of a portion of fines issued for illegally passing a school bus to the comprehensive school bus driver safety training program for the study and promotion of issues involving school bus safety; establishes a school bus motorist education fund. |
A00172 Actions:
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01/04/2017 | referred to transportation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/03/2018 | referred to transportation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/05/2018 | reported referred to ways and means | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/07/2018 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/11/2018 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | rules report cal.83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | ordered to third reading rules cal.83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | REFERRED TO RULES |
A00172 Committee Votes:
Gantt | Excused | McDonough | Aye | ||||||
Perry | Aye | Malliotakis | Aye | ||||||
Cusick | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Lupardo | Aye | DiPietro | Aye | ||||||
Crespo | Aye | Murray | Aye | ||||||
Thiele | Aye | Friend | Aye | ||||||
Bronson | Aye | Byrne | Aye | ||||||
Skoufis | Aye | ||||||||
Steck | Aye | ||||||||
Brindisi | Aye | ||||||||
Simon | Aye | ||||||||
Jean-Pierre | Aye | ||||||||
Hunter | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Williams | Aye | ||||||||
Ryan | Aye | ||||||||
Wright | Aye | ||||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Oaks | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Schimminger | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Excused | Fitzpatrick | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Aye | Malliotakis | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Walter | Aye | ||||||
Perry | Aye | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Curran | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Cahill | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Hooper | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Cusick | Aye | ||||||||
Ortiz | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Weprin | Excused | ||||||||
Rodriguez | Aye | ||||||||
Ramos | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
McDonald | Excused | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Simotas | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Aye | Kolb | Aye | ||||||
Gottfried | Aye | Oaks | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Butler | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Excused | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Excused | Finch | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Hooper | Aye | Raia | Aye | ||||||
Ortiz | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | ||||||||
Cook | Aye | ||||||||
Glick | Aye | ||||||||
Morelle | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Englebright | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Colton | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Perry | Aye | ||||||||
Galef | Aye | ||||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Titus | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
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A00172 Floor Votes:
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Cook
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pellegrino
Yes
Stec
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crespo
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Magee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Steck
Yes
Arroyo
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Glick
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Perry
Yes
Stern
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Curran
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Tague
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
Davila
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Quart
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Barrett
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Ra
Yes
Titone
Yes
Barron
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Hikind
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Raia
Yes
Titus
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hooper
Yes
Miller ML
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Bichotte
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Walker
Yes
Blake
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Morelle
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Rodriguez
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Bohen
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Walter
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Jenne
Yes
Murray
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Johns
Yes
Niou
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brindisi
Yes
Errigo
Yes
Jones
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Williams
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Espinal
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Norris
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Kim
Yes
Oaks
Yes
Schimminger
Yes
Wright
Yes
Butler
Yes
Fernandez
Yes
Kolb
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Seawright
ER
Zebrowski
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Finch
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Simon
Yes
Mr. Speaker
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simotas
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lawrence
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Skoufis
Yes
Castorina
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Palumbo
Yes
Smith
Yes
Colton
ER
Gantt
Yes
Lifton
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Solages
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A00172 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 172 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the education law, in relation to the illegal passing of school buses and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the school bus motorist education fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new 2 section 223-a to read as follows: 3 § 223-a. School bus motorist education program. The commissioner 4 shall, in conjunction with the governor's traffic safety committee, the 5 departments of education and transportation, the division of state 6 police, and the state comprehensive school bus driver safety training 7 council, design and implement a public education program to educate 8 motorists of the dangers of passing a school bus in violation of section 9 eleven hundred seventy-four of this chapter, to reduce the number of 10 such incidents, and to promote school bus safety. 11 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 1809 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 12 amended by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as 13 follows: 14 3. The mandatory surcharge provided for in subdivision one of this 15 section shall be paid to the clerk of the court or administrative tribu- 16 nal that rendered the conviction. Within the first ten days of the month 17 following collection of the mandatory surcharge the collecting authority 18 shall determine the amount of mandatory surcharge collected and, if it 19 is an administrative tribunal or a town or village justice court, it 20 shall pay such money to the state comptroller who shall deposit such 21 money in the state treasury pursuant to section one hundred twenty-one 22 of the state finance law to the credit of the general fund; provided, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01443-01-7A. 172 2 1 however, that the comptroller shall deposit such money collected for 2 violations of section eleven hundred seventy-four of this chapter to the 3 credit of the school bus motorist education fund established pursuant to 4 section eighty-nine-i of the state finance law. If such collecting 5 authority is any other court of the unified court system, it shall, 6 within such period, pay such money to the state commissioner of taxation 7 and finance to the credit of the criminal justice improvement account 8 established by section ninety-seven-bb of the state finance law; 9 provided, however, that the state commissioner of taxation and finance 10 shall deposit such money collected for violations of section eleven 11 hundred seventy-four of this chapter to the credit of the school bus 12 motorist education fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-i of 13 the state finance law. The crime victim assistance fee provided for in 14 subdivision one of this section shall be paid to the clerk of the court 15 or administrative tribunal that rendered the conviction. Within the 16 first ten days of the month following collection of the crime victim 17 assistance fee, the collecting authority shall determine the amount of 18 crime victim assistance fee collected and, if it is an administrative 19 tribunal or a town or village justice court, it shall pay such money to 20 the state comptroller who shall deposit such money in the state treasury 21 pursuant to section one hundred twenty-one of the state finance law to 22 the credit of the criminal justice improvement account established by 23 section ninety-seven-bb of the state finance law. 24 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 3650 of the education law is amended by 25 adding a new paragraph f to read as follows: 26 f. Award and distribute grants, following appropriation by the legis- 27 lature which appropriation may include funds of the school bus motorist 28 education fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-i of the 29 state finance law, for the study of issues involving the illegal passing 30 of stopped school buses, the development of proposals to reduce the 31 number of motorists passing school buses in violation of section eleven 32 hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and traffic law, and to promote 33 school bus safety. 34 § 4. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 89-i to 35 read as follows: 36 § 89-i. The school bus motorist education fund. 1. There is hereby 37 established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the 38 commissioner of taxation and finance a fund known as the school bus 39 motorist education fund. 40 2. Such fund shall consist of monies received by the state from any 41 court of the unified court system pursuant to section eighteen hundred 42 nine of the vehicle and traffic law for violations of section eleven 43 hundred seventy-four of such law, and all other fines, fees, grants, 44 bequests or other monies credited, appropriated or transferred thereto 45 from any other fund or source. 46 3. (a) Fifty percent of the monies of the fund, following appropri- 47 ation by the legislature, shall be made available to the state compre- 48 hensive school bus driver safety training council for the study of the 49 illegal passing of stopped school buses by motorists, and the develop- 50 ment of proposals to reduce the number of motorists passing school buses 51 in violation of section eleven hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and 52 traffic law. 53 (b) The remaining fifty percent of the monies of such fund shall be 54 made available to the department of motor vehicles for the design and 55 implementation, in conjunction with the governor's traffic safety 56 committee, the departments of education and transportation, the divisionA. 172 3 1 of the state police, and the state comprehensive school bus driver safe- 2 ty training council, of a public education program to further educate 3 motorists of the dangers of passing a school bus in violation of section 4 eleven hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and traffic law, to reduce 5 the number of such incidents, and to promote school bus safety. 6 4. The monies of the fund made available pursuant to paragraph (a) of 7 subdivision three of this section shall be paid out on the audit and 8 warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the 9 commissioner of education. The monies of the fund made available pursu- 10 ant to paragraph (b) of subdivision three of this section shall be paid 11 out on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and 12 certified by the commissioner of motor vehicles. At the end of each year 13 any monies remaining in the fund shall be retained in the fund and shall 14 not revert to the general fund. The interest and income earned on money 15 in the fund, after deducting any applicable charges, shall be credited 16 to the fund. 17 § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 18 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.