Senate Bill S4919

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to traffic ticket liability for midwives

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S4919 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1812
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8595, A8896

2025-S4919 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to traffic ticket liability for midwives responding to emergency medical situations.

2025-S4919 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4919 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4919
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 limiting the
   liability of midwives  for  monetary  penalties  for  certain  traffic
   violations committed while responding to a patient

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 240 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 1-c to read as follows:
   1-C.  AT  EVERY HEARING FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF A NOTICE OF LIABILITY,
 AS PROVIDED BY THIS ARTICLE, THERE SHALL  BE  A  REBUTTABLE  PRESUMPTION
 THAT  AN  OWNER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHO IS A LICENSED MIDWIFE, ALLEGED TO
 BE LIABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY PROVISIONS OF LAW SPECIFICALLY  AUTHOR-
 IZING THE IMPOSITION OF MONETARY LIABILITY ON THE OWNER OF A VEHICLE FOR
 FAILURE  OF  AN  OPERATOR  THEREOF: TO COMPLY WITH TRAFFIC-CONTROL INDI-
 CATIONS IN VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION (D) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN
 OF THIS CHAPTER THROUGH THE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION  OF  TRAFFIC-CON-
 TROL SIGNAL PHOTO VIOLATION-MONITORING SYSTEMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTI-
 CLE  TWENTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER; OR TO COMPLY WITH CERTAIN POSTED MAXI-
 MUM SPEED LIMITS IN VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION (B), (C), (D), (F)  OR  (G)
 OF  SECTION  ELEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY OF THIS CHAPTER THROUGH THE INSTALLA-
 TION AND OPERATION OF  PHOTO  SPEED  VIOLATION  MONITORING  SYSTEMS,  IN
 ACCORDANCE  WITH  ARTICLE  THIRTY OF THIS CHAPTER; OR TO COMPLY WITH BUS
 LANE RESTRICTIONS AS DEFINED BY  ARTICLE  TWENTY-FOUR  OF  THIS  CHAPTER
 THROUGH  THE  INSTALLATION  AND  OPERATION OF BUS LANE PHOTO DEVICES, IN
 ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE TWENTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER, IS NOT  LIABLE  FOR
 SUCH ALLEGED VIOLATION IF SUCH OWNER PROVIDES THE HEARING OFFICER WITH A
 SIGNED  AND  AFFIRMED  AFFIDAVIT ATTESTING THAT SUCH OWNER IS A MIDWIFE,
 AND WAS RESPONDING TO AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SITUATION AT  THE  TIME  THAT
 THE  ALLEGED  VIOLATION  OCCURRED,  OR  SUCH OTHER PROOF AS SUCH HEARING
 OFFICER DEEMS APPROPRIATE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04228-01-5

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