Assembly Bill A5507

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of vehicular assault in the third degree; crime is committed by injury to another person while unlawfully passing stopped school bus

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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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2021-A5507 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §120.02-a, amd §§120.03 & 125.12, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6256
2011-2012: A7165
2013-2014: A4773
2015-2016: A4373
2017-2018: A4447
2019-2020: A3767

2021-A5507 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of vehicular assault in the third degree where a person, with criminal negligence, causes physical injury to another person while unlawfully overtaking and passing a stopped school bus; expands other degrees of crime to include unlawfully passing a stopped school bus.

2021-A5507 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5507
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO, FRIEND, J. M. GIGLIO, BRABENEC, DiPIE-
   TRO,  DeSTEFANO,  MANKTELOW,  B. MILLER,  M. MILLER,  NORRIS,  REILLY,
   TAGUE, RA, SALKA, WALSH -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  ASHBY,
   BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, BYRNES, GOODELL, HAWLEY, LALOR, MIKULIN, SAYEGH,
   SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to the crime of vehicular
   assault in the third degree
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.02-a
 to read as follows:
 § 120.02-A VEHICULAR ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF VEHICULAR ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE WHEN, WITH
 CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AND AS A RESULT OF SUCH NEGLIGENCE, HE OR SHE CAUSES
 PHYSICAL INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON WHILE UNLAWFULLY OVERTAKING AND  PASS-
 ING  A SCHOOL BUS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR OF
 THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   VEHICULAR ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   § 2. Section 120.03 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 1-a to read as follows:
   (1-A) CAUSES SUCH SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON WHEN, WITH
 CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AND AS A RESULT OF SUCH NEGLIGENCE, HE OR SHE UNLAW-
 FULLY OVERTAKES AND PASSES A SCHOOL BUS IN VIOLATION OF  SECTION  ELEVEN
 HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, OR
   § 3. Section 125.12 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 1-a to read as follows:
   (1-A)  CAUSES  THE DEATH OF SUCH PERSON WHEN, WITH CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE
 AND AS A RESULT OF SUCH NEGLIGENCE, HE OR SHE UNLAWFULLY  OVERTAKES  AND
 PASSES  A SCHOOL BUS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR
 OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, OR
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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