Senate Bill S6125

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the operation of a motor vehicle while driving while impaired in certain circumstances and increasing the penalties therefor

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S6125 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1193, V & T L; amd §§125.14 & 120.04-a, Pen L

2009-S6125 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the operation of a motor vehicle while driving while impaired in certain circumstances; increases the penalties therefor; makes aggravated vehicular homicide a class B violent felony; makes aggravated vehicular assault a class C violent felony.

2009-S6125 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6125 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6125

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             August 12, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle  and  traffic law and the penal law, in
  relation to the operation of  a  motor  vehicle  while  driving  while
  impaired  in certain circumstances and increasing the penalties there-
  for

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (c) of subdivision 1 of
section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by  chapter  345
of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  (i)  A  person who operates a vehicle in violation of subdivision two,
two-a, three, four or four-a of section  eleven  hundred  ninety-two  of
this  article  [after  having]  AND  EITHER (A) HAS ANY PASSENGER IN THE
VEHICLE UNDER THE AGE OF  SIXTEEN;  OR  (B)  HAS  been  convicted  of  a
violation  of  subdivision  two,  two-a,  three,  four or four-a of such
section or of vehicular assault  in  the  second  or  first  degree,  as
defined,  respectively,  in  sections  120.03  and 120.04 and aggravated
vehicular assault as defined in section 120.04-a of the penal law or  of
vehicular  manslaughter  in  the  second  or  first  degree, as defined,
respectively, in sections 125.12 and  125.13  and  aggravated  vehicular
homicide  as defined in section 125.14 of such law, within the preceding
ten years, shall be guilty of a class E felony, and shall be punished by
a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand
dollars or by a period of imprisonment as provided in the penal law,  or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
  S  2.  Section 125.14 of the penal law, as added by chapter 345 of the
laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
S 125.14 Aggravated vehicular homicide.
  A person is guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide  when  he  or  she
engages  in reckless driving as defined by section twelve hundred twelve

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14624-03-9
              

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