Bill Text: NY A01076 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study on the distribution of traffic fines and to issue a report on the matter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-22 - enacting clause stricken [A01076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01076-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1076
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  directing the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study
          on the distribution of traffic fines
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The commissioner of motor vehicles shall conduct a study in
     2  cooperation  and  consultation  with  the  New York State Association of
     3  Towns, the New York Conference of Mayors and  Municipal  Officials,  and
     4  the  New  York State Magistrates Association relating to the disposition
     5  of fines and penalties as provided in section 1803 of  the  vehicle  and
     6  traffic  law.  Such study shall include, but not be limited to, an exam-
     7  ination of the distribution of fine revenue according to  the  jurisdic-
     8  tion  over the highway where a violation occurred, the statute violated,
     9  whether the statute violated is a state law or a  local  ordinance,  and
    10  the  annual  per  capita monetary cap on revenues applicable to villages
    11  and suburban towns. In conducting this study,  such  commissioner  shall
    12  examine  particularly  the  fairness of the current law as it relates to
    13  the disposition of fines collected for violations under title 7  of  the
    14  vehicle  and  traffic law, with special attention given to violations of
    15  section 1180 of the vehicle and traffic law.
    16    § 2. Upon completion of the study but no later than  the  thirty-first
    17  of December next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become
    18  a law, the commissioner of motor vehicles shall submit a report based on
    19  the  findings  of  the study to the governor, the temporary president of
    20  the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  the  minority  leader  of  the
    21  senate,  the  minority  leader  of the assembly, the chair of the senate
    22  transportation committee, and the chair of the  assembly  transportation
    23  committee  which  shall  include  the  findings  of the study as well as
    24  recommendations for statutory changes that may be implemented  in  order
    25  to  ensure  a  more  equitable distribution of revenue for violations of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03034-01-9
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     1  title 7 of the vehicle and traffic law, with special attention given  to
     2  violations of section 1180 of the vehicle and traffic law.
     3    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.