Bill Text: NY S01032 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the reckless driving prevention grant program which provides funds to local law enforcement agencies and prosecuting offices to combat reckless driving.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01032 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01032-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1032

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ROLISON -- 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 and the state  finance  law,
          in  relation  to  establishing  the  reckless driving prevention grant
          program

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

     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 224-b to read as follows:
     3    § 224-b. Reckless driving  prevention  grant  program.    1.  For  the
     4  purposes  of  this  section,  "eligible  entity"  means  a municipal law
     5  enforcement agency or prosecuting office.
     6    2. The department shall  establish  the  reckless  driving  prevention
     7  grant  program  to  award  grants  to eligible entities for enforcement,
     8  investigation, prevention and prosecutorial activities with  the  objec-
     9  tive of reducing the frequency of reckless driving and similarly danger-
    10  ous operations of a motor vehicle.
    11    3.  The  department  shall  establish  the form and manner in which an
    12  eligible entity may apply for awards through the program. Such  applica-
    13  tion  shall  contain  any information that the department may reasonably
    14  require and a description of any projects or  proposals  for  which  the
    15  eligible entity intends to utilize the funds awarded.
    16    4. The department shall establish guidelines for determining the proc-
    17  ess  of  granting  awards  and  the  types  of projects that qualify for
    18  awards.  Such guidelines shall require that any funds  awarded  be  used
    19  for  projects  that  seek  to  reduce the occurrence of reckless driving
    20  within the jurisdiction of the eligible entity through improved enforce-
    21  ment and prosecution efforts, preventative education, increased  use  of
    22  traffic  control  devices,  or any other initiative which may reasonably
    23  improve traffic safety.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02243-01-5
        S. 1032                             2

     1    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ss to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  99-ss.  The  reckless  driving  prevention fund. 1. There is hereby
     4  established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comptroller  and  the
     5  commissioner  of taxation and finance a fund known as the reckless driv-
     6  ing prevention fund.
     7    2. Such fund shall consist of monies received by the  state  from  any
     8  court  of  the unified court system pursuant to section eighteen hundred
     9  nine of the vehicle and traffic law for  violations  of  section  eleven
    10  hundred  seventy-four  of  such  law, and all other fines, fees, grants,
    11  bequests or other monies credited, appropriated or  transferred  thereto
    12  from any other fund or source.
    13    3. The monies of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature,
    14  shall  be  made  available  for  the  grants to prevent reckless driving
    15  established in section two hundred  twenty-four-b  of  the  vehicle  and
    16  traffic law.
    17    4. The monies of the fund made available pursuant to subdivision three
    18  of  this section shall be paid out on the audit and warrant of the comp-
    19  troller on vouchers approved and certified by the  commissioner  of  the
    20  department of motor vehicles. At the end of each year any monies remain-
    21  ing  in  the  fund shall be retained in the fund and shall not revert to
    22  the general fund. The interest and income earned on the  monies  in  the
    23  fund shall remain in the fund.
    24    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    26  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    27  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    28  on or before such effective date.