Bill Text: NY A06988 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts Abbagail's law prohibiting supervising drivers from acting under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs and subjects them to criminal charges.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A06988 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A06988-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6988 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 7, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to acting as a supervising driver while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs 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 "Abbagail's 2 Law". 3 S 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 4 1192-b to read as follows: 5 S 1192-B. SUPERVISING A DRIVER WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL 6 AND/OR DRUGS. 1. NO PERSON SHALL ACT AS A SUPERVISING DRIVER PURSUANT TO 7 SECTION FIVE HUNDRED ONE OR FIVE HUNDRED ONE-B OF THIS CHAPTER IF SUCH 8 PERSON WOULD BE IN VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR OR 9 FOUR-A OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE IF HE OR SHE 10 WERE OPERATING THE VEHICLE. 11 SUPERVISING A DRIVER WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AND/OR DRUGS 12 SHALL BE A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR. 13 2. AGGRAVATED SUPERVISING A DRIVER WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCO- 14 HOL AND/OR DRUGS. NO PERSON SHALL ACT AS A SUPERVISING DRIVER PURSUANT 15 TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED ONE OR FIVE HUNDRED ONE-B OF THIS CHAPTER IF 16 SUCH PERSON WOULD BE IN VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION TWO-A OF SECTION ELEVEN 17 HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE IF HE OR SHE WERE OPERATING THE VEHI- 18 CLE. 19 AGGRAVATED SUPERVISING A DRIVER WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL 20 AND/OR DRUGS SHALL BE A CLASS E FELONY. 21 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 22 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01224-08-1