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                                  1699--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ROSENTHAL, BENEDETTO, SIMONE -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation --  committee  discharged,
   bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
   committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
   the  penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving an elec-
   tric scooter without reporting in the first  and  second  degrees  and
   creating  the offenses of leaving the scene of an accident involving a
   bicycle with electric assist without reporting in the first and second
   degrees
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2 of section 1287 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by section 10 of part XX of chapter  58  of  the  laws  of
 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Leaving  the  scene  of  an incident involving an electric scooter
 without reporting in the second degree is a [violation] CLASS  A  MISDE-
 MEANOR.
   §  2. Subdivision 2 of section 1288 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 added by section 10 of part XX of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2020,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   2.  Leaving  the  scene  of  an incident involving an electric scooter
 without reporting in the first degree is a class [B misdemeanor] E FELO-
 NY.
   § 3. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding two new sections
 1244 and 1245 to read as follows:
   § 1244. LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN  INCIDENT  INVOLVING  A  BICYCLE  WITH
 ELECTRIC  ASSIST  WITHOUT  REPORTING IN THE SECOND DEGREE. 1. ANY PERSON
 EIGHTEEN YEARS OR OLDER OPERATING A BICYCLE WITH  ELECTRIC  ASSIST  WHO,
 KNOWING  OR  HAVING  CAUSE  TO KNOW, THAT PHYSICAL INJURY, AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION NINE OF SECTION 10.00 OF THE PENAL LAW, HAS BEEN  CAUSED  TO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 ANOTHER  PERSON,  DUE  TO  THE  OPERATION  OF SUCH BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC
 ASSIST BY SUCH PERSON, SHALL, BEFORE LEAVING THE PLACE  WHERE  THE  SAID
 PHYSICAL  INJURY  OCCURRED,  STOP, AND PROVIDE THEIR NAME AND RESIDENCE,
 INCLUDING  STREET  AND  STREET  NUMBER,  TO THE INJURED PARTY, THEN SUCH
 PERSON SHALL REPORT SAID INCIDENT AS SOON  AS  PHYSICALLY  ABLE  TO  THE
 NEAREST POLICE STATION OR JUDICIAL OFFICER.
   2.  LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN INCIDENT INVOLVING A BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC
 ASSIST WITHOUT REPORTING IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   § 1245. LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN  INCIDENT  INVOLVING  A  BICYCLE  WITH
 ELECTRIC ASSIST WITHOUT REPORTING IN THE FIRST DEGREE. 1. ANY PERSON AGE
 EIGHTEEN  YEARS  OR  OLDER OPERATING A BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST WHO,
 KNOWING OR HAVING CAUSE  TO  KNOW,  THAT  SERIOUS  PHYSICAL  INJURY,  AS
 DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION 10.00 OF THE PENAL LAW, HAS BEEN
 CAUSED TO ANOTHER PERSON, DUE TO THE  OPERATION  OF  SUCH  BICYCLE  WITH
 ELECTRIC  ASSIST  BY  SUCH PERSON, SHALL, BEFORE LEAVING THE PLACE WHERE
 THE SAID SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY OCCURRED, STOP, AND PROVIDE THEIR  NAME
 AND RESIDENCE, INCLUDING STREET AND STREET NUMBER, TO THE INJURED PARTY,
 IF  PRACTICAL,  AND  ALSO  TO  A POLICE OFFICER, OR IN THE EVENT THAT NO
 POLICE OFFICER IS IN THE VICINITY OF THE PLACE OF SAID INJURY, THEN SUCH
 PERSON SHALL REPORT SAID INCIDENT AS SOON  AS  PHYSICALLY  ABLE  TO  THE
 NEAREST POLICE STATION OR JUDICIAL OFFICER.
   2.  LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN INCIDENT INVOLVING A BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC
 ASSIST WITHOUT REPORTING IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. 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.