New York S 4859: Requires any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs to complete a drinking driver program

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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4859
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. DIAZ, PARKER -- 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 requiring
any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the
influence of alcohol or drugs to complete a drinking driver program as
a condition of their sentence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
3 (h) Where the court imposes a sentence for any violation of section
4 eleven hundred ninety-two or section eleven hundred ninety-two-a of this
5 article, the court shall require the defendant, as a condition of such
6 sentence, to complete a drinking driver program licensed by the office
7 of alcoholism and substance abuse services and taught by a substance
8 abuse professional who is credentialed by the office of alcoholism and
9 substance abuse services pursuant to section 19.07 of the mental hygiene
10 law, and receive an evaluation conducted by the substance abuse profes-
11 sional teaching the program. The fee for attending such program shall be
12 paid by the defendant.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
14 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07205-01-7