NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7610

Senate Bill S7610

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for the parties to the accident

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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
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Apr 23, 2025	referred to transportation

2025-S7610 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5780
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §603, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: A9809

2025-S7610 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for the parties to the accident.

2025-S7610 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7610

SPONSOR: COONEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for
the parties to the accident

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To amend the current vehicle and traffic law to allow police officers at
the scene of an accident to distinctly indicate and include information
concerning the applicable insurance policies of each party to the acci-
dent.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends subdivision 1 of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, to allow police
officers to capture insurance information on form MV-104a.

Section 2 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Form MV-104 is an accident report used by civilians to capture the
details of an accident, including their insurance policy provider and
insurance number. This bill will add an additional line to form MV-104A,
so that police officers can record not only the vehicles insurance
number, but the company through which the vehicles are insured. This
will make it much easier for both the parties to the accident, and/or
their attorneys, to retrieve this important information directly from
the police report, thereby expediting the insurance recovery process.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that if chap-
ter 196 of the laws of 2024 shall not have taken effect on or before
such date then section one of this act shall take effect on the same
date and in the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2024 takes
effect. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of
any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before
such effective date.

2025-S7610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7610
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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
   police  reports  of traffic accidents to include insurance information
   for the parties to the accident

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2024, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
    1.  Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in
 injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to  the  foregoing
 provisions  of  this  chapter  or pursuant to the provisions of sections
 twelve hundred forty or twelve hundred forty-one of this chapter involv-
 ing a bicycle with electric assist or  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
 sections  twelve  hundred eighty-seven or twelve hundred eighty-eight of
 this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or cause the same
 to be investigated, and report the matter to the commissioner forthwith;
 provided, however, that the report of the accident is made to the police
 officer or judicial officer within five days after such accident.  Every
 coroner,  or  other  official  performing like functions, shall likewise
 make a report to the commissioner with respect to all  deaths  found  to
 have  been the result of motor vehicle, motorcycle, electric scooter, or
 bicycle with electric assist accidents. Such report shall include infor-
 mation regarding the type  or  types  of  vehicles  involved,  including
 passenger motor vehicles, commercial motor vehicles, motorcycles, limit-
 ed use motorcycles, off-highway motorcycles, electric scooters, bicycles
 with electric assist and/or bicycles. Such report shall include informa-
 tion  on  the  width  and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and semi-
 trailers, which are in excess of ninety-five inches in width or  thirty-
 four  feet  in  length and which are involved in such accidents, whether
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09150-01-5

 S. 7610                             2
 
 such accident took place in a work area and whether it was  being  oper-
 ated  with  an  overweight  or  overdimension  permit. Such report shall
 distinctly indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable
 restraint  system  inflated and deployed.   SUCH REPORT SHALL DISTINCTLY
 INDICATE AND INCLUDE   INFORMATION CONCERNING THE  APPLICABLE  INSURANCE
 POLICIES OF EACH PARTY TO THE ACCIDENT. Nothing contained in this subdi-
 vision  shall  be deemed to preclude a police officer from reporting any
 other accident which, in the judgment of such police officer,  would  be
 required to be reported to the commissioner by the operator of a vehicle
 pursuant to section six hundred five of this article.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided, however, that
 if chapter 196 of the laws of 2024 shall not have  taken  effect  on  or
 before  such  date then section one of this act shall take effect on the
 same date and in the same manner as such chapter of  the  laws  of  2024
 takes  effect.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.

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