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A00553 Summary:

BILL NOA00553 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORPaulin

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1225-e, V & T L

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Establishes optional pilot programs for the county of Westchester, for local police departments to use electronic scanning devices to determine whether or not the operator of a vehicle was using a mobile phone or portable electronic device near the time of an accident or collision.

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01/08/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 553

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to creating a
 pilot program for the field testing of mobile telephones or portable
 electronic devices by local police departments in Westchester county;
 and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there-
 of

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

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 1225-e to read as follows:
 3 § 1225-e. Pilot program for field testing of mobile telephones and
 4 portable electronic devices. 1. Purpose. For the county of Westchester,
 5 the commissioner shall authorize a two year pilot program for such coun-
 6 ty to allow local police departments to field test mobile telephones and
 7 portable electronic devices following an accident or collision involving
 8 damage to real or personal property, personal injury or death. The
 9 commissioner shall not require any police department to participate in
 10 such program.
 11 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
 12 (a) "Field testing" shall mean the use of an electronic scanning
 13 device:
 14 (1) approved and utilized in accordance with rules jointly promulgated
 15 by the commissioner and the commissioner of criminal justice services;
 16 (2) approved and certified for use by Westchester county;
 17 (3) used only to scan the log records on the mobile telephone or port-
 18 able electronic device of the operator of the motor vehicle to determine
 19 whether or not the operator of a motor vehicle was using a mobile tele-
 20 phone or a portable electronic device in violation of section twelve
 21 hundred twenty-five-c or twelve hundred twenty-five-d of this article,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01992-01-5

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 1 provided, however, that such use of an electronic scanning device shall
 2 be limited to a search of log records that have been activated by typing
 3 or swiping actions on a mobile telephone or electronic portable device
 4 in the prior sixty minutes in determining whether the operator of a
 5 motor vehicle was using a mobile telephone or portable electronic device
 6 in violation of either such section at or near the time of the accident
 7 or collision which provides the grounds for such testing. No such elec-
 8 tronic scan shall access, collect or store user data or the content or
 9 origin of any communication or game conducted, or image or electronic
 10 data viewed, on a mobile telephone or portable electronic device.
 11 (b) "Log records" shall mean the log records of keyboard usage, activ-
 12 ity logs and applications logs for mobile telephones and portable elec-
 13 tronic devices. For the purposes of this section, log records shall
 14 include only log records which have been activated by typing or swiping
 15 a mobile telephone or portable electronic device, and shall not include
 16 any log records that were activated by Bluetooth or voice activation
 17 technology.
 18 (c) "Mobile telephone" shall mean a mobile telephone as defined in
 19 paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section twelve hundred twenty-five-c
 20 of this article.
 21 (d) "Portable electronic device" shall mean a portable electronic
 22 devic