Assembly Bill A8978

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for mandatory revocation of drivers license for certain convictions under the penal law

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  • 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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2017-A8978 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5496
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1193, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1739
2011-2012: S1790
2013-2014: A5315, S640
2015-2016: A38, S3191
2019-2020: A151, S4105

2017-A8978 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the mandatory revocation of a driver's license for certain convictions under the penal law, followed by a period of one year of operating with a post-revocation conditional license.

2017-A8978 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8978
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to revocation
   of licenses in certain cases
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1193 of the vehi-
 cle  and traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3-a to read
 as follows:
   (3-A) CONVICTION OF A CRIME PURSUANT TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING  SECTIONS
 OF  THE PENAL LAW: 120.03, 120.04, 125.12 OR 125.13. SIX MONTHS FOLLOWED
 BY A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR OF OPERATING UNDER A POST-REVOCATION CONDITIONAL
 LICENSE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION ELEVEN  HUNDRED
 NINETY-EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to convictions entered  on  and  after
 such date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03471-01-7

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