Bill Text: NY A02293 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the court to impose a fine for all alcohol and drug related driving offenses even where a term of imprisonment for such offense is also imposed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A02293 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02293-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2293 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to sentences for alcohol or drug related offenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as added by chapter 47 of the laws of 1988, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (e) Certain sentences prohibited. Notwithstanding any provisions of 5 the penal law, no judge or magistrate shall impose a sentence of uncon- 6 ditional discharge for a violation of any subdivision of section eleven 7 hundred ninety-two of this article nor shall a judge or magistrate 8 impose a sentence of imprisonment, conditional discharge or probation 9 unless such imprisonment, conditional discharge or probation is accompa- 10 nied by a sentence of a fine as provided in this subdivision. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next 12 succeeding 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. LBD00437-01-9
