New York S 6485: Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs

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S06485 Summary:

BILL NOS06485C

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SAME ASSAME AS A03981-C

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SPONSORRYAN C

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COSPNSRADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, CHAN, COMRIE, FAHY, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO, HARCKHAM,
 HELMING, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, LIU, MARTINEZ, MARTINS, MATTERA, MAYER, MURRAY, OBERACKER, O'MARA,
 PALUMBO, RAMOS, RHOADS, ROLISON, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SKOUFIS, STEC, TEDISCO, WALCZYK, WEBER, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1194, 1193 & 1192, ren §119-b to be §119-c, add §§119-b & 120-a, V & T L

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Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOS06485C

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03/14/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

03/28/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

03/28/2025PRINT NUMBER 6485A

06/06/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

06/06/2025PRINT NUMBER 6485B

06/09/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

06/09/2025PRINT NUMBER 6485C

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6485--C

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. C. RYAN, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPA-
 TRICK, COMRIE, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO, HARCKHAM, HELMING,
 JACKSON, KAVANAGH, LIU, MARTINEZ, MARTINS, MATTERA, MAYER, MURRAY,
 OBERACKER, O'MARA, PALUMBO, RAMOS, RHOADS, ROLISON, SCARCELLA-SPANTON,
 SKOUFIS, STEC, TEDISCO, WALCZYK, WEBER, WEIK -- 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 -- 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 vehicle and traffic law, in relation to procedures
 relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; and providing for
 the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Section 119-b of the vehicle and traffic law is renumbered
 2 119-c and a new section 119-b is added to read as follows:
 3 § 119-b. Impaired. Impairment is reached when a driver has voluntarily
 4 consumed or ingested alcohol or a drug as defined in section one hundred
 5 fourteen-a of this article to the extent that the driver has impaired,
 6 to any extent, the physical and mental abilities which a driver is
 7 expected to possess in order to operate a vehicle as a reasonable and
 8 prudent driver.
 9 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 10 120-a to read as follows:
 11 § 120-a. Intoxication. Intoxication is a greater degree of impairment
 12 which is reached when a driver has voluntarily consumed or ingested
 13 alcohol or a substance or combination of substances to the extent that
 14 the driver is incapable, to a substantial extent, of employing the phys-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00438-14-5

 S. 6485--C 2

 1 ical and mental abilities which a driver is expected to possess in order
 2 to operate a vehicle as a reasonable and prudent driver.
 3 § 3. Subdivision 1, the opening paragraph of paragraph (a) and subpar-
 4 agraph 1 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 and paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
 5 subparagraph 4 of paragraph (d), and paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of
 6 section 1194 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 47 of
 7 the laws of 1988, the opening paragraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision
 8 2 as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 1996, subparagraph 1 of para-
 9 graph (b) of subdivision 2 as amended by cha