Assembly Bill A3172

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to reckless driving; relates to culpability regarding criminal homicide involving the use of a motor vehicle

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A3172 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1212, V & T L; add §15.07, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A2127
2017-2018: A3840
2019-2020: A1381
2021-2022: A3036
2023-2024: A1144

2025-A3172 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to reckless driving; relates to culpability regarding criminal homicide involving the use of a motor vehicle.

2025-A3172 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3172
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  reckless
   driving;  and  to  amend the penal law, in relation to criminal negli-
   gence involving the use of a motor vehicle

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision (a) of section 1212 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 436 of the laws of 2024, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   (a)  Reckless  driving  shall mean driving or using any motor vehicle,
 motorcycle or any other vehicle propelled by any power other than muscu-
 lar power or any appliance or accessory thereof in a  manner  which  (1)
 unreasonably interferes with the free and proper use of the public high-
 way  or  any  parking  lot,  or  (2) unreasonably endangers users of the
 public highway or any parking lot, OR (3) IS RECKLESS WITHIN THE MEANING
 OF SECTION 15.05 OF THE  PENAL  LAW.  [Reckless]  ALL  SUCH  driving  is
 prohibited.   Every person violating this provision shall be guilty of a
 misdemeanor.
   § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 15.07 to read as
 follows:
 § 15.07 CULPABILITY; CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE INVOLVING THE USE  OF  A  MOTOR
           VEHICLE.
   NOTWITHSTANDING  SECTION  15.05 OF THIS ARTICLE, A PERSON MAY BE FOUND
 TO HAVE ACTED WITH CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE INVOLVING  THE  USE  OF  A  MOTOR
 VEHICLE  WITH  RESPECT TO A HOMICIDE, AS DEFINED UNDER SECTION 125.10 OF
 THIS CHAPTER, OR AN ASSAULT, AS DEFINED UNDER  SECTION  120.00  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER,  IF  IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT SUCH PERSON WAS RECKLESSLY DRIVING,
 AS DEFINED UNDER SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TWELVE OF THE VEHICLE AND  TRAF-
 FIC LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05878-01-5

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