Assembly Bill A8071

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Implements a moratorium on digital billboards and directing the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study on the impact of digital billboards on motor vehicle accidents

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A8071 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6809
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9153, S6901
2021-2022: A6097, S1923
2023-2024: A3964, S1036

2025-A8071 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Implements a moratorium on the installation of new digital billboards; directs the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study on the impact of digital billboards on motor vehicle accidents.

2025-A8071 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8071
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to implementing a
   moratorium on digital billboards and  directing  the  commissioner  of
   transportation  to conduct a study on the impact of digital billboards
   on motor vehicle accidents

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  397-b  of the general business law is amended by
 adding two new subdivisions 3 and 4 to read as follows:
   3. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,  NO  PERSON
 SHALL  INSTALL  A  DIGITAL  BILLBOARD  AFTER  THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION, UNLESS SUCH BILLBOARD COMPLIES WITH  THE  RULES  AND  REGU-
 LATIONS  PROMULGATED  BY  THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION PURSUANT TO
 SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION.
   4. THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL CONDUCT  A  STUDY  ON  THE
 IMPACT  OF  DIGITAL  BILLBOARDS  ON  THE FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY OF MOTOR
 VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO,  SUCH  MOTOR  VEHICLE
 ACCIDENTS  THAT  RESULT IN SEVERE BODILY INJURY OR DEATH IN PROXIMITY TO
 SUCH DIGITAL BILLBOARDS. WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE  OF  THIS
 SUBDIVISION, THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL:
   (A) SUBMIT A REPORT OF THEIR FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
 TO  THE  GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER
 OF THE ASSEMBLY; AND
   (B) PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS REGARDING  THE  INSTALLATION  AND
 USE OF DIGITAL BILLBOARDS BASED UPON THE FINDINGS OF SUCH STUDY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11257-01-5

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