Bill Text: NY S03516 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
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-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3516--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 5, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sens. O'BRIEN, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 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, 2015. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06998-04-4