Bill Text: NY S00949 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of driving while ability impaired to include driving while ability is affected to any extent by the voluntary consumption or utilization of a drug.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00949 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00949-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          949
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  MARCELLINO,  GOLDEN,  LARKIN, RANZENHOFER -- read
         twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
         the parameters of driving while ability impaired  to  include  driving
         while ability affected by drugs
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1192 of the  vehicle  and  traffic
    2  law,  as  added by chapter 47 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    1. Driving while ability impaired.  No person shall  operate  a  motor
    5  vehicle while the person's ability to operate such motor vehicle is:
    6    (A) impaired by the consumption of alcohol; OR
    7    (B) AFFECTED TO ANY EXTENT BY THE VOLUNTARY CONSUMPTION OR UTILIZATION
    8  OF A DRUG AS DEFINED IN THIS CHAPTER.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   10  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.
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