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Assembly Bill A7032

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the felony of aggressive driving

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2025-A7032 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1212-a, V & T L

2025-A7032 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the felony of aggressive driving.

2025-A7032 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7032
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
   the felony of aggressive driving
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 1212-a to read as follows:
   §  1212-A. AGGRESSIVE DRIVING. (A) AGGRESSIVE DRIVING SHALL MEAN DRIV-
 ING OR USING ANY MOTOR VEHICLE AND PERFORMING TWO OR MORE OF THE FOLLOW-
 ING ACTIONS: DRIVING IN VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED TEN OF  THIS
 TITLE; DRIVING IN VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX OF THIS
 TITLE;  DRIVING  IN  VIOLATION  OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE OF
 THIS TITLE; DRIVING IN VIOLATION OF SECTION  ELEVEN  HUNDRED  THIRTY  OF
 THIS TITLE; DRIVING IN VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF
 THIS  TITLE;  DRIVING  IN  VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY OF
 THIS TITLE BY DRIVING AT A SPEED OF MORE THAN TWENTY MILES PER HOUR OVER
 THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT; SUDDENLY AND ABRUPTLY STOPPING  OR  SLOWING  THE
 VEHICLE WHILE ANOTHER VEHICLE IS DIRECTLY BEHIND; OR DRIVING IN A MANNER
 WHICH  UNREASONABLY  INTERFERES WITH THE FREE AND PROPER USE OF A PUBLIC
 HIGHWAY.
   (B) EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF VIOLATING THIS SECTION SHALL  BE  GUILTY
 OF  A  CLASS  E FELONY. UPON A CONVICTION FOR A SECOND VIOLATION OF THIS
 SECTION, SUCH PERSON SHALL BE GUILTY OF A CLASS D FELONY.
   § 2. 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.
                                                            LBD10515-01-5

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