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Assembly Bill A8217

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs

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2025-A8217 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2214
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §114-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9923

2025-A8217 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Alters the definition of "drug" to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities.

2025-A8217 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8217
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  the  defi-
   nition of drugs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 114-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 chapter 92 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   § 114-a. Drug. The term "drug" when used in this  chapter,  means  and
 includes any substance listed in section thirty-three hundred six of the
 public  health  law and cannabis and concentrated cannabis as defined in
 section 222.00 of the penal law AND  ANY  SUBSTANCE  OR  COMBINATION  OF
 SUBSTANCES THAT IMPAIR, TO ANY EXTENT, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ABILITIES.
   § 2. 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.
                                                            LBD06130-01-5

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