Assembly Bill A445

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits only one traffic infraction per traffic stop for having tinted windows on 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-A445 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4942
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7958
2019-2020: S2770
2021-2022: S5833
2023-2024: A9738, S8193

2025-A445 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits only one traffic infraction per traffic stop for having tinted windows on a motor vehicle.

2025-A445 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    445
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  permitting
   only one traffic infraction per traffic stop for having tinted windows
   on a motor vehicle

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 12-a of section 375 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   (H)  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW, ONLY ONE TRAFFIC INFRACTION MAY BE
 INCURRED AS A RESULT OF A SINGLE TRAFFIC STOP BY AN  OWNER  OF  A  MOTOR
 VEHICLE  FOR  A  VIOLATION  OF  SUBPARAGRAPH ONE, TWO, THREE, OR FOUR OF
 PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00422-01-5

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