New York S 5568: Enacts the Alexander John Smullen Traffic Safety Memorial Law

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S05568 Summary:

BILL NOS05568B

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SAME ASSAME AS A03938-B

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SPONSORFAHY

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, HELMING, MURRAY, OBERACKER, ORTT, PALUMBO, PARKER, RHOADS, ROLISON, SCARCELLA-SPANTON,
 TEDISCO, WALCZYK, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §14, Transp L

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Authorizes the department of transportation to establish and implement a state memorial sign program to memorialize persons who died due to injuries sustained in a fatal motor vehicle crash on state highways.

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BILL NOS05568B

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02/25/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

03/11/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

03/11/2025PRINT NUMBER 5568A

05/16/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

05/16/2025PRINT NUMBER 5568B

06/11/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/11/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1816

06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A3938B

&nbspA03938 AMEND=B Smullen

&nbsp01/30/2025referred to transportation

&nbsp03/12/2025amend (t) and recommit to transportation

&nbsp03/12/2025print number 3938a

&nbsp05/16/2025amend (t) and recommit to transportation

&nbsp05/16/2025print number 3938b

&nbsp05/28/2025reported referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/04/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp06/11/2025reported 

&nbsp06/11/2025rules report cal.609

&nbsp06/11/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.609

&nbsp06/11/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/11/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp06/11/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S5568B

&nbsp06/11/20253RD READING CAL.1816

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp12/01/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp12/12/2025signed chap.624

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5568--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 25, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. FAHY, MURRAY, RHOADS, ROLISON, TEDISCO -- read twice
 and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
 on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to enacting the
 "Alexander John Smullen Traffic Safety Memorial Law"

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "Alexander John Smullen Traffic Safety Memorial Law".
 3 § 2. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a new
 4 subdivision 29-a to read as follows:
 5 29-a. (a) To establish and implement a state memorial sign program to
 6 memorialize persons who died due to injuries sustained in a fatal motor
 7 vehicle crash on state highways, including controlled access state high-
 8 ways, maintained by the state which is reportable to the federal fatali-
 9 ty analysis reporting system (FARS). Such program shall provide for the
 10 provision and installation of signs on such state highways maintained by
 11 the state in memory of such persons, upon application within five years
 12 of such fatal crash by an immediate family member of such person and
 13 payment of a fee, established by the commissioner, for the costs of
 14 design, production, placement, and maintenance of such signs. Such
 15 program also shall provide that:
 16 (i) in the event any member of such person's immediate family submits
 17 an objection to the placement of such memorial sign to the commissioner,
 18 the sign shall not be placed, and shall be removed if the objection was
 19 received after such sign was placed;
 20 (ii) no memorial sign shall be approved for a person who died while
 21 operating a motor vehicle in violation of section eleven hundred nine-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04527-06-5

 S. 5568--B 2

 1 ty-two of the vehicle and traffic law and as a result of such intoxica-
 2 tion or impairment, such person operated the motor vehi