Bill Text: NY A09913 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalties for moving violations which result in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-09-19 - enacting clause stricken [A09913 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09913-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9913
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 27, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. NOJAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
          the penalties for moving violations which result in the serious bodily
          injury or death of another person
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i)  Every person convicted of a traffic infraction for a violation of
     4  any ordinance, order, rule or regulation adopted pursuant to title seven
     5  of this chapter which involves a moving violation with a motor  vehicle,
     6  where  such  violation  results in the serious bodily injury or death of
     7  another person, shall be punishable as follows:
     8    1. for a first offense, by: (i) a fine of up to three hundred dollars;
     9  (ii) a license suspension of up to six  months;  and  (iii)  a  mandated
    10  driver safety course;
    11    2. for a second offense, by: (i) a fine of up to one thousand dollars;
    12  (ii)  a  license suspension of up to twelve months; and (iii) a mandated
    13  driver safety course. Such person shall also be guilty of a  misdemeanor
    14  and  shall  be subject to a sentence of up to one hundred twenty days in
    15  jail; and
    16    3. for a third or subsequent offense, by permanent license revocation.
    17  Such person shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall  be  subject
    18  to a sentence of up to twelve months in jail.
    19    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14818-02-6