STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5203 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 providing certain penalties for certain traffic infractions by drivers 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 within a twelve-month period, or found to 4 have violated any combination of three of the following offenses: diso- 5 beying traffic-control signal indications pursuant to section eleven 6 hundred eleven of this chapter, speeding more than ten miles per hour 7 over the speed limit pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph one of 8 subdivision (h) of section eleven hundred eighty of this chapter, 9 participating in a race or unauthorized speed contest pursuant to 10 section eleven hundred eighty-two of this chapter, overtaking a school 11 bus pursuant to section eleven hundred seventy-four of this chapter, 12 reckless driving pursuant to section twelve hundred twelve of this chap- 13 ter, failure to yield to a pedestrian and operating a motor vehicle 14 while using a cell phone pursuant to section twelve hundred 15 twenty-five-c of this chapter or operating a motor vehicle while using a 16 portable electronic device pursuant to section twelve hundred twenty- 17 five-d of this chapter, such person shall be punished by a suspension of 18 driving privileges entirely for at least one year. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 20 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. LBD11130-02-9