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Senate Bill S10323

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of aggravated distracted driving and provides that such crime shall be a misdemeanor

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2025-S10323 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1225-e, V & T L

2025-S10323 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of aggravated distracted driving; provides that such crime shall be a misdemeanor; requires the motor vehicle operator's driver's license to be revoked; provides that the registration may be revoked.

2025-S10323 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10323
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  opera-
   tion  of  a  motor  vehicle  while using mobile telephones or portable
   electronic devices
 
   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 1225-e to read as follows:
   § 1225-E. AGGRAVATED DISTRACTED DRIVING. 1. NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE  A
 MOTOR  VEHICLE  IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS TWELVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE-C OR
 TWELVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE-D OF  THIS  ARTICLE  WHILE  A  CHILD  WHO  IS
 FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR LESS IS A PASSENGER IN SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE.
   2.  A  VIOLATION  OF  THIS SECTION SHALL BE A MISDEMEANOR AND SHALL BE
 PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN
 ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, OR BY IMPRISONMENT IN  A  PENITENTIARY  OR  COUNTY
 JAIL FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE YEAR, OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
   3.  UPON  A CONVICTION FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION, THE OPERATOR'S
 DRIVER'S LICENSE SHALL BE REVOKED AND A REGISTRATION MAY BE REVOKED  FOR
 A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS.
   4.  WHERE  A COURT FAILS TO IMPOSE OR INCORRECTLY IMPOSES A REVOCATION
 AS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, UPON RECEIPT  OF  A
 CERTIFICATE  OF  CONVICTION FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED FOUR-
 TEEN OF THIS CHAPTER,  IMPOSE  SUCH  MANDATED  REVOCATION,  WHICH  SHALL
 SUPERSEDE ANY SUCH ORDER WHICH THE COURT MAY HAVE IMPOSED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15855-01-6

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