Senate Bill S4267

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Enacts "Vince's law" to extend the period of time in which multiple driving while intoxicated convictions can occur in order to be a felony and increases penalties by one felony class

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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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2013-S4267 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1193, V & T L; amd §70.06, Pen L

2013-S4267 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts "Vince's law"; extends the period of time in which multiple driving while intoxicated convictions can occur in order to be a felony; increases driving while intoxicated felonies by one class.

2013-S4267 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S4267 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4267

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 18, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- 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  penal  law,  in
  relation to enacting "Vince's law"

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

  Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as "Vince's law".
  S 2. Subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision  1  of
section  1193  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 496
of the laws of 2009, are amended and a new subparagraph (ii-a) is  added
to read as follows:
  (i)  A  person  who operates a vehicle (A) in violation of subdivision
two, two-a, three, four or four-a of section eleven  hundred  ninety-two
of  this  article after having been convicted of a violation of subdivi-
sion 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]  TWENTY-FIVE  years, or (B) in
violation of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  two-a  of  section  eleven
hundred  ninety-two of this article 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.
  (ii) 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 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07265-03-3
              

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