Senate Bill S4524

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to mandatory screening procedures

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Archive: Last 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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2023-S4524 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1198-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4464
2021-2022: S2602
2025-2026: S213

2023-S4524 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires mandatory screening for alcohol or substance abuse and dependency when a person operates a motor vehicle while impaired by the combined influence of drugs or of alcohol and any drug or drugs.

2023-S4524 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4524 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4524
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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  mandatory
   screening procedures
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of  section  1198-a  of  the
 vehicle  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 496 of the laws of 2009,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Mandatory screening; when authorized. Upon the arraignment of,  or
 at  the  discretion  of the court, prior to the sentencing of any person
 who (i) at arraignment is charged with or prior to sentencing  convicted
 of a first violation of operating a motor vehicle in violation of subdi-
 vision  one,  two  or  three  or  paragraph  (b) of subdivision two-a of
 section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article while such person  has
 less  than  .15  of  one per centum by weight of alcohol in the person's
 blood as shown by chemical analysis  of  such  person's  blood,  breath,
 urine  or  saliva  made  pursuant  to  the  provisions of section eleven
 hundred ninety-four of this article, or in violation of subdivision four
 OR SUBDIVISION FOUR-A of such section eleven hundred ninety-two, or (ii)
 has refused to submit to a chemical  test  pursuant  to  section  eleven
 hundred  ninety-four  of this article, the court shall order such person
 to submit to screening for alcohol or  substance  abuse  and  dependency
 using  a  standardized  written  screening  instrument  developed by the
 office of alcoholism and substance abuse services, to be administered by
 an alcohol or substance abuse professional.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05409-01-3

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