Senate Bill S1621

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides an exemption to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles for emergency ambulance service vehicles

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Current 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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2025-S1621 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A113
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8616, A10395
2019-2020: S3446, A848
2021-2022: S4255, A9759
2023-2024: S1816, A2912, A8220

2025-S1621 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides an exemption to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles for emergency ambulance service vehicles.

2025-S1621 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1621 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1621
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 providing an
   exemption to the prohibition on  tinted  windows  in  automobiles  for
   emergency ambulance service vehicles

   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 (g) to read as follows:
   (G)  ALL  EMERGENCY  AMBULANCE SERVICE VEHICLES, AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 ONE HUNDRED  FIFTEEN-C  OF  THIS  CHAPTER,  SHALL  BE  EXEMPT  FROM  THE
 PROVISIONS 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.
                                                            LBD00826-01-5

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