Bill Text: NY A09291 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides a minimum penalty of $300 for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-06 - held for consideration in transportation [A09291 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09291-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 6748--A                                            A. 9291--A
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2016
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        IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. FUNKE, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
          portation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, NOJAY  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the Committee on Transportation -- 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 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.
                                                                   LBD14060-03-6