Bill Text: NY S06748 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a minimum penalty of $300 for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-11 - referred to transportation [S06748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06748-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 6748                                                  A. 9291
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2016
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  penalty
          for  a  moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or
          death of another person
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) Every person convicted of a traffic infraction for a violation  of
     4  any ordinance, order, rule or regulation adopted pursuant to title seven
     5  of  this chapter which involves a moving violation with a motor vehicle,
     6  where such violation results in the serious bodily injury  or  death  of
     7  another  person,  shall  be  punishable  by a fine of no less than three
     8  hundred dollars.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14060-01-6