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Senate Bill S3885

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the length of probation and conditional discharge for misdemeanor violations of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs

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2017-S3885 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§65.00 & 65.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3489
2015-2016: S4196
2019-2020: S3310

2017-S3885 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the length of probation and conditional discharge for misdemeanor violations of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs to five years.

2017-S3885 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3885 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3885
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the  length  of
   probation  and  conditional  discharge  for  misdemeanor violations of
   operating a motor vehicle while under  the  influence  of  alcohol  or
   drugs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 3  of  section  65.00  of  the
 penal  law, as amended by chapter 556 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (d) (I) For an unclassified misdemeanor, the period of probation shall
 be [a term of two or] three years if the authorized sentence  of  impri-
 sonment  is in excess of three months, otherwise the period of probation
 shall be one year.
   (II) FOR A VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION TWO, TWO-A  OR  THREE  OF  SECTION
 ELEVEN  HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, THE PERIOD OF
 PROBATION SHALL BE FIVE YEARS.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 65.05 of the penal law,
 as amended by chapter 618 of the laws of 1992, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (a)  Three years in the case of a felony OR A VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION
 TWO, TWO-A OR THREE OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE  VEHICLE
 AND TRAFFIC LAW; and
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07970-01-7

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