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                                  931--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation  -- 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

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

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 SUBDIVISION NINE 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
 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.