Bill Text: NY S03516 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3516 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Requires persons convicted of driving while intoxicated who are injured as a result of such offense and are medically transported to a hospital to pay for such medical transport and other pre-hospital medical bills before they apply to have their license to drive reissued to them.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-17 - referred to transportation [S03516 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03516-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3516
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 5, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. O'BRIEN -- 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  requiring
         persons  convicted  of  driving while intoxicated who are injured as a
         result of such offense and who are medically transported to a hospital
         to pay for such transport and other pre-hospital medical bills  before
         their license to drive can be reissued to them
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 1193 of the vehi-
    2  cle and traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 4 to read as
    3  follows:
    4    (4) IN NO EVENT SHALL A NEW LICENSE BE ISSUED OR A FORMER  LICENSE  BE
    5  RESTORED  TO  A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OF SUBDIVI-
    6  SION TWO OR THREE, OR BOTH SUBDIVISION TWO  AND  SUBDIVISION  THREE,  OF
    7  SECTION  ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE WHERE PHYSICAL INJURY
    8  TO SUCH  CONVICTED  PERSON  RESULTED  FROM  SUCH  OFFENSE  WHICH  INJURY
    9  RESULTED  IN  THE TRANSPORT OF SUCH PERSON BY AMBULANCE OR OTHER MEDICAL
   10  TRANSPORT TO A HOSPITAL, UNLESS ALL BILLS FOR  SUCH  TRANSPORT  AND  ANY
   11  OTHER  PRE-HOSPITAL  MEDICAL  EXPENSES  HAVE BEEN PAID PRIOR TO THE DATE
   12  SUCH PERSON APPLIES FOR A NEW LICENSE OR FOR RESTORATION OF  THE  FORMER
   13  LICENSE  AND  UNLESS  PROOF OF THE PAYMENT OF SUCH BILLS IS SUBMITTED TO
   14  THE DEPARTMENT WITH SUCH APPLICATION.
   15    S 2.  This act shall take effect September 1, 2014.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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