Senate Bill S200

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the revocation of a person's driver's license who has been convicted of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs

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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-S200 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §49-a, Nav L; amd §1193, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S3055
2021-2022: S951
2023-2024: S5424

2025-S200 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the revocation of a person's driver's license who has been convicted of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

2025-S200 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    200
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, MURRAY, PALUMBO -- read
   twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the navigation law and the vehicle and traffic  law,  in
   relation  to  revoking  a  person's  driver's  license  following  the
   conviction of operating a vessel while under the influence of  alcohol
   or drugs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 49-a of the navigation law is amended by  adding  a
 new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   3-A. PRIVILEGE TO OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE; SUSPENSION. THE COURT SHALL
 SUSPEND  A PERSON'S PRIVILEGE TO OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE AND MAY SUSPEND
 A MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION IN THE SAME MANNER AS DEFINED UNDER  SUBDI-
 VISION  TWO  OF  SECTION  ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE OF THE VEHICLE AND
 TRAFFIC LAW WHERE AN OPERATOR IS CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION  OF  PARAGRAPH
 (A),  (B),  (D) OR (E) OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION OR A VIOLATION
 OF SECTION FORTY-NINE-B OF THIS PART.
   § 2. Clause (c) of subparagraph 12 of paragraph (b) of  subdivision  2
 of  section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 732
 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) For revocations OR SUSPENSIONS imposed pursuant to clause  (a)  of
 this  subparagraph  AND  SUBDIVISION  3-A OF SECTION FORTY-NINE-A OF THE
 NAVIGATION LAW, the commissioner may adopt rules to  permit  conditional
 or  restricted  operation  of a motor vehicle by any such person after a
 mandatory revocation period of not less than three years subject to such
 criteria, terms and conditions as established by the commissioner.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00871-01-5

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