New York A 5953: Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license

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A05953 Summary:

BILL NOA05953 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGriffin

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COSPNSRKay, Schiavoni, McDonald, Cunningham, Stern, Sayegh, Burdick, Seawright, Alvarez, Woerner, Colton,
 Durso, Ra, Smullen, Epstein, Dinowitz, Shimsky, Hevesi, Otis, Kassay, Novakhov, Tapia, Simone,
 Levenberg, Rosenthal, Steck, Brown K, Cook, Yeger, Buttenschon, Carroll P, Lavine, Torres, Berger,
 Lupardo, Taylor, Wieder, Simon, Mikulin, Norber, Lemondes, Reilly, McDonough, McMahon

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MLTSPNSRDavila, Lunsford

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Amd §§120.03 & 120.04, add §125.13-a, Pen L

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Includes in the class E felony of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of serious physical injury while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license; creates the crime of vehicular homicide.

Go to top A05953 Actions:

BILL NOA05953 

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02/25/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

01/15/2026enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5953

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including within the
 offense of vehicular assault in the second degree, the causing of
 serious injury while knowingly operating a motor vehicle with a
 revoked or suspended license or while not holding a license and estab-
 lishing the offense of vehicular homicide

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 120.03 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 732
 2 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 120.03 Vehicular assault in the second degree.
 4 A person is guilty of vehicular assault in the second degree when [he
 5 or she] such person causes:
 6 1. serious physical injury to another person, and either:
 7 [(1)] (a) operates a motor vehicle in violation of subdivision two,
 8 three, four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of the vehi-
 9 cle and traffic law or operates a vessel or public vessel in violation
 10 of paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subdivision two of section forty-
 11 nine-a of the navigation law, and as a result of such intoxication or
 12 impairment by the use of a drug, or by the combined influence of drugs
 13 or of alcohol and any drug or drugs, operates such motor vehicle, vessel
 14 or public vessel in a manner that causes such serious physical injury to
 15 such other person, or
 16 [(2)](b) operates a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating
 17 of more than eighteen thousand pounds which contains flammable gas,
 18 radioactive materials or explosives in violation of subdivision one of
 19 section eleven hundred ninety-two of the vehicle and traffic law, and
 20 such flammable gas, radioactive materials or explosives is the cause of
 21 such serious physical injury, and as a result of such impairment by the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07445-01-5

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 1 use of alcohol, operates such motor vehicle in a manner that causes such
 2 serious physical injury to such other person, or
 3 [(3)] (c) operates a snowmobile in violation of paragraph (b), (c) or
 4 (d) of subdivision one of section 25.24 of the parks, recreation and
 5 historic preservation law or operates an all terrain vehicle as defined
 6 in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section twenty-two hundred eight-
 7 y-one of the vehicle and traffic law and in violation of subdivision
 8 two, three, four, or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of the
 9 vehicle and traffic law, and as a result of such intoxication or impair-
 10 ment by the use of a drug, or by the combined influence of drugs or of
 11 alcohol and any drug or drugs, operates such snowmobile or all terrain
 12 vehicle in a manner that causes such serious physical injury to such
 13 other person.
 14 If it is established that the person operating such motor vehicle,
 15 vessel, public vessel, snowmobile or all t