Relates to modifying the penalties associated with passing a stopped school bus to include a mandatory driver education course for each offense after a second conviction if recommended by the court.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8285--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 6, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Trans-
portation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to modifying
the penalties associated with passing a stopped school bus to include
a mandatory driver education course
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 1174 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 254 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 (c) Every person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) of this
5 section shall: for a first conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
6 not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than four hundred
7 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such
8 fine and imprisonment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of
9 which were committed within a period of three years, such person shall
10 be punished by a fine of not less than six hundred dollars nor more than
11 seven hundred fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one
12 hundred eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a
13 conviction of a third or subsequent violation, all of which were commit-
14 ted within a period of three years, such person shall be punished by a
15 fine of not less than seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than one
16 thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty
17 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every person convicted of a
18 second violation or subsequent violation thereafter shall be required to
19 attend a driver education course, if recommended by the court.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
22 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
23 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
24 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11445-03-7
