Bill Text: NY S02081 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to penalties for causing a death while committing aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-06 - referred to transportation [S02081 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02081-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2081
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  BONACIC, FUNKE -- 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  aggravated
          unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree
          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  "Teresita's
     2  law".
     3    §  2.  Subparagraph  (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section
     4  511 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 169 of the  laws
     5  of  2013,  is  amended  and  a  new subparagraph (v) is added to read as
     6  follows:
     7    (iv) operates a motor vehicle upon a public highway  while  holding  a
     8  conditional  license  issued  pursuant  to  paragraph (a) of subdivision
     9  seven of section eleven hundred ninety-six of this chapter  while  under
    10  the influence of alcohol or a drug in violation of subdivision one, two,
    11  two-a,  three, four, four-a or five of section eleven hundred ninety-two
    12  of this chapter[.]; or
    13    (v) commits the offense of aggravated unlicensed operation of a  motor
    14  vehicle  in  the  third  degree  as  defined  in subdivision one of this
    15  section; and while operating such vehicle negligently causes  the  death
    16  of another person.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02700-01-7
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