Bill Text: NY S01246 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting in the second degree and leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting in the first degree; provides increased penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving a wheeled non-motorized means of conveyance without reporting in the first and second degrees when the vehicle involved is a bicycle with an electric assist system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01246-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1246

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
          the  penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving an elec-
          tric scooter without reporting in the second degree  and  leaving  the
          scene  of  an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting
          in the first degree and providing increased penalties for leaving  the
          scene  of  an  accident  involving  a  wheeled  non-motorized means of
          conveyance without reporting in the first and second degrees when  the
          vehicle involved is a bicycle with an electric assist system

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1287 of the  vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law,  as  added  by  section  10 of part XX of chapter 58 of the laws of
     3  2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2. Leaving the scene of an  incident  involving  an  electric  scooter
     5  without  reporting  in the second degree is a [violation] class A misde-
     6  meanor.
     7    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1288 of the vehicle and traffic law,  as
     8  added  by  section  10  of part XX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is
     9  amended to read as follows:
    10    2. Leaving the scene of an  incident  involving  an  electric  scooter
    11  without reporting in the first degree is a class [B misdemeanor] E felo-
    12  ny.
    13    §  3. Section 1240 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
    14  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    15    3. Notwithstanding subdivision two of this section, leaving the  scene
    16  of  an incident involving a bicycle with electric assist without report-
    17  ing in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
    18    § 4. Section 1241 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding
    19  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04822-01-3
        S. 1246                             2

     1    3.  Notwithstanding subdivision two of this section, leaving the scene
     2  of an incident involving a bicycle with electric assist without  report-
     3  ing in the first degree is a class E felony.
     4    §  5.    This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
     6  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
     7  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
     8  completed on or before such effective date.