Senate Bill S3602

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-S3602 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6984
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120.03 & 120.04, add §125.13-a, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6386, A8587
2015-2016: S2484, A3536
2017-2018: S3299, A3759
2019-2020: S2149, A863
2021-2022: S1228, A9703

2023-S3602 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license; creates the crime of vehicular homicide.

2023-S3602 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3602 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3602
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law,  in  relation  to  including  within  the
   offense  of  vehicular  assault  in  the second degree, the causing of
   serious injury while  knowingly  operating  a  motor  vehicle  with  a
   revoked or suspended license or while not holding a license and estab-
   lishing the offense of vehicular homicide
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 120.03 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  732
 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
 § 120.03 Vehicular assault in the second degree.
   A  person  is guilty of vehicular assault in the second degree when he
 or she causes:
   1. serious physical injury to another person, and either:
   [(1)] (A) operates a motor vehicle in violation  of  subdivision  two,
 three,  four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of the vehi-
 cle and traffic law or operates a vessel or public vessel  in  violation
 of  paragraph  (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subdivision two of section forty-
 nine-a of the navigation law, and as a result of  such  intoxication  or
 impairment  by  the use of a drug, or by the combined influence of drugs
 or of alcohol and any drug or drugs, operates such motor vehicle, vessel
 or public vessel in a manner that causes such serious physical injury to
 such other person, or
   [(2)](B) operates a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle  weight  rating
 of  more  than  eighteen  thousand  pounds which contains flammable gas,
 radioactive materials or explosives in violation of subdivision  one  of
 section  eleven  hundred  ninety-two of the vehicle and traffic law, and
 such flammable gas, radioactive materials or explosives is the cause  of
 such  serious physical injury, and as a result of such impairment by the

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08592-01-3
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