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Senate Bill S1768

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "drag racing and speeding enforcement act"

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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2025-S1768 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2585
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1182, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8840
2021-2022: A2643
2023-2024: S6178, A207

2025-S1768 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes five points on a person's license for being convicted of participating in speed contests and races.

2025-S1768 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1768 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1768
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 imposing
   points on a person's license for being convicted of  participating  in
   speed contests and races

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and  may  be  cited  as  the  "drag
 racing and speeding enforcement act".
   §  2. Section 1182 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3. IN ADDITION TO THE FINE AND/OR IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED BY SUBDIVISIONS
 ONE AND TWO OF THIS SECTION, EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF  A  VIOLATION  OF
 THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE SUBJECT TO A PENALTY IN THE FORM OF FIVE POINTS
 AGAINST SUCH PERSON'S DRIVERS LICENSE.
   § 3. 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.
                                                            LBD04269-01-5

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