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Assembly Bill A10225

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the division of criminal justice to create and disseminate to police departments a video on bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters

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2025-A10225 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10016
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §837, Exec L

2025-A10225 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the division of criminal justice to create and disseminate to police departments a video on bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters including information on classification and definitions, legal operation, speed limits and enforcement, helmet and age requirements, and a review of legal operation of such devices.

2025-A10225 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10225
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division
   of  criminal justice to create and disseminate to police departments a
   video on bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 25 to read as follows:
   25.  IN  COOPERATION  WITH  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE
 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, CREATE AND DISSEMINATE TO  POLICE  DEPART-
 MENTS  A  VIDEO  ON BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST AND ELECTRIC SCOOTERS.
 SUCH VIDEO SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING  INFORMA-
 TION:
   (A)  LEGAL  CLASSIFICATION  AND  DEFINITIONS OF BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC
 ASSIST AND ELECTRIC SCOOTERS, INCLUDING A VISUAL BREAKDOWN OF CLASSES OF
 BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST AND SCOOTERS, AND COMMON MISIDENTIFICATION
 ISSUES, SUCH AS THROTTLE VERSUS PEDAL-ASSIST;
   (B) WHERE SUCH DEVICES MAY LEGALLY OPERATE, INCLUDING ADDRESSING OPER-
 ATION ON STREETS, BICYCLE LANES, AND SIDEWALKS, IN PARKS AND ON  SHARED-
 USE PATHS, AND LOCAL OPT-OUT RULES;
   (C)  SPEED LIMITS AND ENFORCEMENT GUIDANCE, INCLUDING WHEN SPEED MEAS-
 UREMENT IS REQUIRED VERSUS WHEN OBSERVATIONAL ENFORCEMENT IS PERMISSIBLE
 AND THE LEGAL IMPORTANCE OF SPEED VERSUS THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE;
   (D) HELMET AND AGE REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING WHEN STOPS OR  THE  ISSUING
 OF A SUMMONS IS APPROPRIATE AND WHEN WARNINGS OR EDUCATION IS PREFERRED;
 AND
   (E)  A  REVIEW OF LEGAL OPERATION OF SUCH DEVICES, INCLUDING RIDING IN
 BICYCLE LANES, USING PEDAL-ASSIST, AND LAWFUL DEVICES OPERATING  WITHOUT
 REGISTRATION OR INSURANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14612-01-6

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