Bill Text: NY A05921 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs to complete a drinking driver program as a condition of their sentence.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-03 - enacting clause stricken [A05921 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05921-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5921
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 2, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, CAHILL, COLTON, COOK, PHEFFER, TITUS,
TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the
influence of alcohol or drugs to complete a drinking driver program as
a condition of their sentence
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
3 (H) WHERE THE COURT IMPOSES A SENTENCE FOR ANY VIOLATION OF SECTION
4 ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OR SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO-A OF THIS
5 ARTICLE, THE COURT SHALL REQUIRE THE DEFENDANT, AS A CONDITION OF SUCH
6 SENTENCE, TO COMPLETE A DRINKING DRIVER PROGRAM APPROVED BY THE COMMIS-
7 SIONER, AND RECEIVE AN EVALUATION BY A PROGRAM LICENSED BY THE OFFICE OF
8 ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 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.
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