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Senate Bill S4688

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires batteries for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters to be tested and approved by certain testing laboratories

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2025-S4688 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A239
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1242 & 1285, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7745, A7889

2025-S4688 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires batteries for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters to be tested and approved by certain testing laboratories.

2025-S4688 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4688 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4688
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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  requiring
   batteries  for  bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters to
   be tested and approved by certain testing laboratories

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 1242 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
   14. EVERY BICYCLE WITH  ELECTRIC  ASSIST  SHALL  BE  EQUIPPED  WITH  A
 BATTERY  THAT HAS BEEN TESTED AND APPROVED BY AND THAT CONTAINS THE SEAL
 OF THE UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES, OR ANY TESTING LABORATORY THAT  IS  AN
 INTERNATIONAL  ORGANIZATION  FOR STANDARDIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL ELEC-
 TROTECHNICAL COMMISSION ("ISO/IEC") 17025 ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT TESTING
 LABORATORY, AN ISO/IEC 17065 ACCREDITED CERTIFYING BODY, OR PARTICIPATES
 IN THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND  HEALTH
 ADMINISTRATION   NATIONALLY   RECOGNIZED   TESTING  LABORATORY  ("NRTL")
 PROGRAM.
   § 2. Section 1285 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  EVERY  ELECTRIC  SCOOTER SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH A BATTERY THAT HAS
 BEEN TESTED AND APPROVED BY AND THAT CONTAINS THE SEAL OF THE UNDERWRIT-
 ERS LABORATORIES, OR ANY TESTING LABORATORY  THAT  IS  AN  INTERNATIONAL
 ORGANIZATION  FOR  STANDARDIZATION  AND  INTERNATIONAL  ELECTROTECHNICAL
 COMMISSION ("ISO/IEC") 17025 ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT TESTING  LABORATORY,
 AN  ISO/IEC  17065  ACCREDITED  CERTIFYING  BODY, OR PARTICIPATES IN THE
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH  ADMIN-
 ISTRATION NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TESTING LABORATORY ("NRTL") PROGRAM.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01492-01-5

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