Bill Text: NY A04168 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits municipalities from transferring primary investigating authority of vehicle collisions that result in serious injury or death from the police to a non-law enforcement agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - referred to transportation [A04168 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04168-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4168

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
          municipalities from transferring primary  investigating  authority  of
          vehicle collisions that result in serious injury or death to a non-law
          enforcement agency

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

     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 603-a  of
     2  the  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 489 of the laws of
     3  2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    In addition to the requirements of section six hundred three  of  this
     5  article,  whenever  a motor vehicle accident results in serious physical
     6  injury or death to a person, [and such accident either is discovered  by
     7  a police officer, or reported to a police officer within five days after
     8  such  accident  occurred,]  the police shall conduct an investigation of
     9  such accident.  No municipality shall transfer such primary  investigat-
    10  ing authority to a non-law enforcement agency.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03347-01-5