Bill Text: NY S02195 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires state police to carry and offer use of jumper cables to disabled vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S02195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02195-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2195

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring state police
          to carry and offer use of jumper cables

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  212-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  212-a.  Required  equipment.  The superintendent shall require that
     4  every vehicle operated by the New York state  police  be  equipped  with
     5  jumper  cables to assist in powering the battery of disabled vehicles. A
     6  state police officer shall be required  to  offer  use  of  such  jumper
     7  cables when approaching a disabled vehicle.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06178-01-3