Assembly Bill A863

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license

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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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2019-A863 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2149
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120.03 & 120.04, add §125.13-a, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8587, S6386
2015-2016: A3536, S2484
2017-2018: A3759, S3299
2021-2022: A9703, S1228
2023-2024: A6984, S3602

2019-A863 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license.

2019-A863 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    863
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMOTAS, LENTOL, McDONOUGH, PAULIN, PRETLOW,
   DenDEKKER, FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law,  in  relation  to  including  within  the
   offense  of  vehicular  assault  in  the second degree, the causing of
   serious injury while  knowingly  operating  a  motor  vehicle  with  a
   revoked or suspended license or while not holding a license and estab-
   lishing the offense of vehicular homicide
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 120.03 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  732
 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
 § 120.03 Vehicular assault in the second degree.
   A  person  is guilty of vehicular assault in the second degree when he
 or she causes:
   1. serious physical injury to another person, and either:
   [(1)] (A) operates a motor vehicle in violation  of  subdivision  two,
 three,  four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of the vehi-
 cle and traffic law or operates a vessel or public vessel  in  violation
 of  paragraph  (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subdivision two of section forty-
 nine-a of the navigation law, and as a result of  such  intoxication  or
 impairment  by  the use of a drug, or by the combined influence of drugs
 or of alcohol and any drug or drugs, operates such motor vehicle, vessel
 or public vessel in a manner that causes such serious physical injury to
 such other person, or
   [(2)](B) operates a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle  weight  rating
 of  more  than  eighteen  thousand  pounds which contains flammable gas,
 radioactive materials or explosives in violation of subdivision  one  of
 section  eleven  hundred  ninety-two of the vehicle and traffic law, and
 such flammable gas, radioactive materials or explosives is the cause  of
 such  serious physical injury, and as a result of such impairment by the

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01395-01-9
              

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