File #: SLR 0003-2002    Version: * Name: Requiring school speed limits to be no more than twenty miles per hour (A.4924)
Type: SLR Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on State and Federal Legislation
On agenda: 2/6/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: State Legislation Resolution requesting the New York State Legislature to pass a bill introduced by Assembly Members Scarborough, Diaz, M. Cohen, Dinowitz, Stringer, Greene and Ortiz, et al, A.4924, "AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring school speed limits to be no more than twenty miles per hour in cities having a population in excess of one million".
Sponsors: Maria Baez, Eva S. Moskowitz, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Robert Jackson, Michael E. McMahon, Jose M. Serrano, Martin J. Golden
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Attachments: 1. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting - 2/6
State Legislation Resolution No. 3 Title State Legislation Resolution requesting the New York State Legislature to pass a bill introduced by Assembly Members Scarborough, Diaz, M. Cohen, Dinowitz, Stringer, Greene and Ortiz, et al, A.4924, "AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring school speed limits to be no more than twenty miles per hour in cities having a population in excess of one million". Body By Council Members Baez, Moskowitz, Comrie, Jackson, McMahon and Serrano; also Council Member Golden Whereas, a bill has been introduced in the New York State Legislature by Assembly Members Scarborough, Diaz, M. Cohen, Dinowitz, Stringer, Greene and Ortiz, et al, A.4924, "AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring school speed limits to be no more than twenty miles per hour in cities having a population in excess of one million"; and Whereas, the enactment of the above State Legislation requires the concurrence of the Council of the City of New York as the local legislative body; now, therefore, be it Resolved, that the Council of the City of New York, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2 of Article 9 of the Constitution of the State of New York, does hereby request the New York State Legislature to enact into law the aforesaid pending bill. Referred to the Committee on State and Federal Legislation.