Bill Text: NY A08128 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A08128 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08128-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8128 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred 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 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. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 15 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 16 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 17 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11806-01-1