S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8923--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
July 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspension
of a license for failure to pay a fine for impaired driving violations
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The subdivision heading and paragraph (a) of subdivision
4-a of section 510 of the vehicle and traffic law, the subdivision head-
ing as amended by chapter 76 of the laws of 2021, and paragraph (a) as
amended by chapter 713 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as
follows:
Suspension for failure to answer an appearance ticket OR PAY A CERTAIN
FINE. (a) Upon receipt of a court notification of the failure of a
person to appear within sixty days of the return date or new subsequent
adjourned date, pursuant to an appearance ticket charging said person
with a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter (except one
for parking, stopping, or standing) OR FOR FAILURE TO PAY A FINE IMPOSED
PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER FOR A
VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, of any
violation of the tax law or of the transportation law regulating traffic
or of any lawful ordinance or regulation made by a local or public
authority, relating to traffic (except one for parking, stopping, or
standing) the commissioner or [his or her] THE agent OF SUCH COMMISSION-
ER may suspend the driver's license or privileges of such person pending
receipt of notice from the court that such person has appeared in
response to such appearance ticket or has paid or has entered into an
installment payment plan to pay the fine associated with a conviction
entered as a result of the failure to appear in response to such appear-
ance ticket OR IMPOSED PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE
OF THIS CHAPTER FOR A VIOLATION OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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THIS CHAPTER, or the defendant has been acquitted of the charge that led
to the suspension or such charge was otherwise dismissed. Such suspen-
sion shall take effect no less than thirty days from the day upon which
an initial notice thereof is sent by the commissioner to the person
whose driver's license or privileges are to be suspended, provided that
the commissioner shall send such person at least two notices thereof,
including such initial notice, at least fifteen days apart during such
period. Any suspension issued pursuant to this paragraph shall be
subject to the provisions of paragraph (j-l) of subdivision two of
section five hundred three of this [chapter] TITLE.
§ 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1802 of the vehicle and
traffic law, as added by chapter 382 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The court or hearing officer shall have the discretion in the
interests of justice to reduce or waive the amount of any fine, fee or
mandatory surcharge assessed for a violation of any of the provisions of
this chapter or any local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation made
by local authorities in relation to traffic, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT APPLY TO FINES IMPOSED PURSUANT
TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER AND MANDATORY
SURCHARGES IMPOSED PURSUANT TO SECTION EIGHTEEN HUNDRED NINE-C AND PARA-
GRAPH B OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION EIGHTEEN HUNDRED NINE-E OF THIS
CHAPTER FOR VIOLATIONS OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS
CHAPTER.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.