STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5407 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, LUPARDO, STECK, HUNTER, KOLB, HAWLEY, DiPIETRO, STIRPE, BLANKENBUSH, BYRNES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, GIGLIO, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the penalty for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or death of another person 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 of a traffic infraction for a violation of 4 any ordinance, order, rule or regulation adopted pursuant to title seven 5 of this chapter which involves a moving violation with a motor vehicle, 6 where such violation results in the serious bodily injury or death of 7 another person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, which shall be punish- 8 able by a fine of no less than three hundred dollars, or imprisonment of 9 not more than thirty days or both such fine and imprisonment, and the 10 completion of a motor vehicle accident prevention course, as defined by 11 article twelve-B of this chapter. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07114-01-9