Bill Text: NY A09291 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Prohibits the use of virtual reality headsets while operating a motor vehicle, limited use automobile, limited use motorcycle or bicycle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-28 - reported referred to rules [A09291 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09291-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9291--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- 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  prohibiting
          the use of virtual reality headsets while operating a motor vehicle

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 24-a of section 375 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as added by chapter 604 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    24-a. It shall be unlawful to operate upon any public highway in  this
     5  state a motor vehicle, limited use automobile, limited use motorcycle or
     6  bicycle while the operator is wearing more than one earphone attached to
     7  a radio, tape player or other audio device or is wearing a virtual real-
     8  ity headset.
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    11  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    12  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    13  completed on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14462-02-4
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