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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S40
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S40 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A3826
- Current Committee:
- Senate Transportation
- Law Section:
- Vehicle and Traffic Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง1193, V & T L
2009-S40 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S40 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to additional penalties for certain drunk driving convictions PURPOSE : Increases the penalties for criminal convictions of drunk or drugged driving where a child, under the age of 17, is a passenger. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1: Amends subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law by adding a new paragraph (g) that increases the penalties for driving intoxicated with a child in the vehicle. The additional penalties for a person convicted of drunk driving with a child under the age of 17 in the vehicle are: for the first such offense, an additional fine of between 2,000 and 5,000 dollars and 48-hours of consecutive imprisonment; for any subsequent offense, an additional fine of between 5,000 and 10,000 dollars and an additional term of imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than 4 years. JUSTIFICATION : According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Center for Statistics and Analysis in 2004 a total of 442 (21 %) of all fatalities among children 14 and younger occurred in crashes
2009-S40 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 40 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- 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 additional penalties for certain drunk driving convictions THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows: (G) DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED WITH A CHILD IN THE VEHICLE. A PERSON CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION TWO, TWO-A, THREE, FOUR OR FOUR-A OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE, WHERE A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN WAS A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE BEING OPERATED, SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING PENALTIES IN ADDITION TO THE CURRENT PENALTIES: (1) FOR A FIRST SUCH OFFENSE, AN ADDITIONAL FINE OF NOT LESS THAN TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND FORTY-EIGHT CONSECUTIVE HOURS OF IMPRISONMENT; (2) FOR ANY SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE, AN ADDITIONAL FINE OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND AN ADDI- TIONAL TERM OF IMPRISONMENT OF NOT LESS THAN ONE YEAR NOR MORE THAN FOUR YEARS. S 2. 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. LBD00944-01-9
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