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Senate Bill S10016

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the division of criminal justice to create and disseminate to police departments a video on bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters

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2025-S10016 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10225
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §837, Exec L

2025-S10016 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the division of criminal justice to create and disseminate to police departments a video on bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters including information on classification and definitions, legal operation, speed limits and enforcement, helmet and age requirements, and a review of legal operation of such devices.

2025-S10016 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10016 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10016
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 22, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division
   of criminal justice to create and disseminate to police departments  a
   video on bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 25 to read as follows:
   25. IN COOPERATION WITH THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  MOTOR  VEHICLES  AND  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OF  TRANSPORTATION, CREATE AND DISSEMINATE TO POLICE DEPART-
 MENTS A VIDEO ON BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST  AND  ELECTRIC  SCOOTERS.
 SUCH  VIDEO SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING INFORMA-
 TION:
   (A) LEGAL CLASSIFICATION AND DEFINITIONS  OF  BICYCLES  WITH  ELECTRIC
 ASSIST AND ELECTRIC SCOOTERS, INCLUDING A VISUAL BREAKDOWN OF CLASSES OF
 BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST AND SCOOTERS, AND COMMON MISIDENTIFICATION
 ISSUES, SUCH AS THROTTLE VERSUS PEDAL-ASSIST;
   (B) WHERE SUCH DEVICES MAY LEGALLY OPERATE, INCLUDING ADDRESSING OPER-
 ATION  ON STREETS, BICYCLE LANES, AND SIDEWALKS, IN PARKS AND ON SHARED-
 USE PATHS, AND LOCAL OPT-OUT RULES;
   (C) SPEED LIMITS AND ENFORCEMENT GUIDANCE, INCLUDING WHEN SPEED  MEAS-
 UREMENT IS REQUIRED VERSUS WHEN OBSERVATIONAL ENFORCEMENT IS PERMISSIBLE
 AND THE LEGAL IMPORTANCE OF SPEED VERSUS THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE;
   (D)  HELMET  AND AGE REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING WHEN STOPS OR THE ISSUING
 OF A SUMMONS IS APPROPRIATE AND WHEN WARNINGS OR EDUCATION IS PREFERRED;
 AND
   (E) A REVIEW OF LEGAL OPERATION OF SUCH DEVICES, INCLUDING  RIDING  IN
 BICYCLE  LANES, USING PEDAL-ASSIST, AND LAWFUL DEVICES OPERATING WITHOUT
 REGISTRATION OR INSURANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14612-01-6

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