A845 • 2025

Provides for establishment of school speed limits by county legislative body

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Sponsor: Kenneth Blankenbush
Last action: 2026-05-20
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Provides for establishment of school speed limits by county legislative body

Provides for establishment of school speed limits by county legislative body Provides for the establishment of school speed limits of not less than fifteen miles per hour by the legislative body of any county or, if so delegated, by the legislative body of any locality within said county on a portion of a state highway passing a school building.

What This Bill Does

Provides for establishment of school speed limits by county legislative body Provides for the establishment of school speed limits of not less than fifteen miles per hour by the legislative body of any county or, if so delegated, by the legislative body of any locality within said county on a portion of a state highway passing a school building.

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Bill History

2026-05-20 Assembly
HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN TRANSPORTATION
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-01-08 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Provides for establishment of school speed limits by county legislative body
Provides for the establishment of school speed limits of not less than fifteen miles per hour by the legislative body of any county or, if so delegated, by the legislative body of any locality within said county on a portion of a state highway passing a school building.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                           845

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH,
          MILLER, SMULLEN, TAGUE -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to school speed
          limits

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1620 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (a) The department of transportation with respect  to  state  highways
     5  maintained  by the state outside of cities having a population in excess
     6  of one million, and highways on Indian reservations, may by order,  rule
     7  or  regulation  establish  higher or lower maximum speed limits at which
     8  vehicles may proceed on or along such highways than the fifty-five miles
     9  per hour statutory maximum speed limit.  No  such  maximum  speed  limit
    10  shall  be  established  at  less than twenty-five miles per hour, except
    11  that school speed limits may be established at  not  less  than  fifteen
    12  miles per hour BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR BY THE LEGISLATIVE
    13  BODY  OF ANY COUNTY OR, IF SO DELEGATED BY SUCH COUNTY LEGISLATIVE BODY,
    14  BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF ANY MUNICIPALITY OR SCHOOL  DISTRICT  LOCATED
    15  WITHIN  SAID  COUNTY,  for  a  distance not to exceed one thousand three
    16  hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or
    17  exit of a school abutting on the highway.  Absence  of  signs  installed
    18  pursuant  to this section shall be presumptive evidence that the depart-
    19  ment of transportation has not established a higher maximum speed  limit
    20  than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03292-01-5