Bill Text: NY A08021 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts Vince's law, relating to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 46-26)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-01 - signed chap.191 [A08021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08021-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8021--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 14, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ROBERTS, BRINDISI, THIELE, MARKEY, STIRPE, HOOP-
         ER, BARCLAY, MORELLE, RAIA, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
         A.  CROUCH, KOLB, McDONALD, McDONOUGH, McLAUGHLIN, SCHIMEL, SIMANOWITZ
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recom-
         mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with  Assembly
         Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  enacting
         "Vince's law"
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as "Vince's law".
    2    S 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehicle and
    3  traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (ii-a)  to  read  as
    4  follows:
    5    (II-A)  A  PERSON  WHO  OPERATES A VEHICLE IN VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION
    6  TWO, TWO-A, THREE, FOUR OR FOUR-A OF SECTION ELEVEN  HUNDRED  NINETY-TWO
    7  OF  THIS  ARTICLE AFTER HAVING BEEN CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OF SUBDIVI-
    8  SION TWO, TWO-A, THREE, FOUR OR FOUR-A OF SUCH SECTION OR  OF  VEHICULAR
    9  ASSAULT  IN  THE  SECOND  OR  FIRST DEGREE, AS DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN
   10  SECTIONS 120.03 AND 120.04 AND AGGRAVATED VEHICULAR ASSAULT  AS  DEFINED
   11  IN SECTION 120.04-A OF THE PENAL LAW OR OF VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE
   12  SECOND OR FIRST DEGREE, AS DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 125.12 AND
   13  125.13 AND AGGRAVATED VEHICULAR HOMICIDE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 125.14 OF
   14  SUCH  LAW, THREE OR MORE TIMES WITHIN THE PRECEDING FIFTEEN YEARS, SHALL
   15  BE GUILTY OF A CLASS D FELONY, AND SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A  FINE  OF  NOT
   16  LESS  THAN TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OR BY
   17  A PERIOD OF IMPRISONMENT AS PROVIDED IN THE PENAL LAW, OR BY  BOTH  SUCH
   18  FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   20  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
   21  violations occurring on and after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11261-02-4