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Assembly Bill A2585

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "drag racing and speeding enforcement act"

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2025-A2585 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1768
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1182, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8840
2021-2022: A2643
2023-2024: A207, S6178

2025-A2585 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes five points on a person's license for being convicted of participating in speed contests and races.

2025-A2585 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2585
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SAYEGH, GLICK, STIRPE, MIKULIN, SHIMSKY, SLATER,
   EPSTEIN, RAGA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  imposing
   points  on  a person's license for being convicted of participating in
   speed contests and races
 
   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 the "drag
 racing and speeding enforcement act".
   § 2. Section 1182 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3. IN ADDITION TO THE FINE AND/OR IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED BY SUBDIVISIONS
 ONE  AND  TWO  OF THIS SECTION, EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OF
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A PENALTY IN THE FORM  OF  FIVE  POINTS
 AGAINST SUCH PERSON'S DRIVERS LICENSE.
   § 3. 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
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04269-01-5

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