New York S 8948: Relates to creating the Puerto Rican relief account

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S08948 Summary:

BILL NOS08948A

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SAME ASSAME AS A09209-A

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SPONSORRYAN C

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COSPNSRADDABBO, ZELLNER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1242 & 1282, V & T L

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Requires any person, firm, association or corporation selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.

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BILL NOS08948A

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01/20/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

03/24/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

03/24/2026PRINT NUMBER 8948A

05/19/20261ST REPORT CAL.1273

05/20/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/21/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/29/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A9209A

&nbspA09209 AMEND=A Conrad

&nbsp11/03/2025referred to transportation

&nbsp01/07/2026referred to transportation

&nbsp03/19/2026amend (t) and recommit to transportation

&nbsp03/19/2026print number 9209a

&nbsp03/24/2026reported 

&nbsp03/26/2026advanced to third reading cal.334

&nbsp05/04/2026passed assembly

&nbsp05/04/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp05/04/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

&nbsp05/29/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S8948A

&nbsp05/29/20263RD READING CAL.1273

&nbsp05/29/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/29/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8948--A

 IN SENATE

 January 20, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. C. RYAN, ADDABBO, ZELLNER -- 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 equipping
 bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters with lights

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 1242 of the vehicle and traffic
 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
 3 (c) No person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the busi-
 4 ness of selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist shall sell or
 5 lease any bicycle with electric assist unless such bicycle with electric
 6 assist is equipped with a lamp on the front which shall emit a white
 7 light visible during hours of darkness from a distance of at least five
 8 hundred feet to the front and with a red or amber light visible to the
 9 rear for three hundred feet. Provided, however, at least one of such
 10 lights shall be visible for two hundred feet from each side.
 11 § 2. Subdivision 9 of section 1282 of the vehicle and traffic law is
 12 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
 13 (c) No person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the busi-
 14 ness of selling or leasing electric scooters shall sell or lease any
 15 electric scooter unless such electric scooter is equipped with a lamp on
 16 the front which shall emit a white light visible during hours of dark-
 17 ness from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the front and with
 18 a red light visible to the rear for three hundred feet. Provided,
 19 however, at least one of such lights shall be visible for two hundred
 20 feet from each side.
 21 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 22 law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13941-05-6

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