New York A 5839: Relates to aggravated obstructing emergency medical services

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A05839 Summary:

BILL NOA05839 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05658

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SPONSORGiglio

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §195.16-a, Pen L; amd §511-c, V & T L

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Establishes the crime of aggravated obstructing emergency medical services for conduct which obstructs the efforts of certain emergency services, personnel or systems while obstructing traffic or posing a risk of serious physical injury; permits forfeiture.

Go to top A05839 Actions:

BILL NOA05839 

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02/24/2025referred to codes

05/13/2025held for consideration in codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

Go to topA05839 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/13/2025AYE/NAY:16/6 Action: Held for Consideration DinowitzAyeMorinelloNay

CookAyeReillyNay

LavineAyeMikulinNay

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoNay

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

EpsteinAye

BoresAye

ReyesAye

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

Go to topA05839 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA05839 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5839

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law and the vehicle and traffic law, in
 relation to establishing the offense of aggravated obstructing emer-
 gency medical services

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

 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 195.16-a
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 195.16-a Aggravated obstructing emergency medical services.
 4 A person is guilty of aggravated obstructing emergency medical
 5 services when such person intentionally and unreasonably obstructs the
 6 efforts of any services, technician, personnel, system or unit specified
 7 in section three thousand one of the public health law in the perform-
 8 ance of their duties and either:
 9 1. engages in conduct that obstructs vehicular traffic pursuant to
 10 subdivision five of section 240.20 of this part; or
 11 2. engages in conduct that poses a risk of serious physical injury to
 12 others.
 13 Aggravated obstructing emergency medical services is a class E felony.
 14 § 2. The section heading, subdivision 2, subparagraph (ii) of para-
 15 graph (a) of subdivision 5, and subdivisions 6 and 8 of section 511-c of
 16 the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 607 of the laws of
 17 1993, are amended to read as follows:
 18 Seizure and forfeiture of vehicles used in the unlicensed operation of
 19 a motor vehicle and aggravated obstructing emergency medical services
 20 under certain circumstances.
 21 2. Any motor vehicle which has been or is being used in violation of
 22 paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section five hundred eleven of
 23 this article, or section 195.16-a of the penal law may be seized by any

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01737-01-5

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 1 peace officer, acting pursuant to [his or her] their special duties, or
 2 police officer, and forfeited as hereinafter provided in this section.
 3 (ii) The person seeking to claim the motor vehicle has furnished
 4 satisfactory evidence of registration and financial security and, if the
 5 person was the operator of the vehicle at the time of the violation of
 6 paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section five hundred eleven of
 7 this article, or section 195.16-a of the penal law, satisfactory
 8 evidence of payment of any fines or penalties imposed in connection
 9 therewith; and
 10 6. Where a demand for the return of a motor vehicle is not made within
 11 ninety days after the termination of the criminal proceeding founded
 12 upon the charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in
 13 the first degree, or aggravated obstructing emergency services under
 14 section 195.16-a of the penal law, such motor vehicle shall be deemed to
 15 be abandoned. Such vehicle shall be disposed of by the county, cities of
 16 New York, Yonkers, Rochester or Buffalo or the state, as applicable, in
 17 accordance with section tw