New York A 3616: Requires county medical examiners or coroners to give the state police forensic laboratory DNA samples of unidentified dead or alive and missing persons upon request

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A03616 Summary:

BILL NOA03616 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03459

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SPONSORSimone

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COSPNSRGlick, Tapia, Epstein, Gonzalez-Rojas, Shimsky, Reyes, Simon, Kassay

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1146 & 601, V & T L

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Requires motorists to exercise care to avoid colliding with any domestic or companion animal; increases fines and penalties for causing such injury and for leaving the scene of injury to certain animals without reporting.

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BILL NOA03616 

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01/29/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3616

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 29, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to injury of
 domestic and companion animals by motorists

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

 1 Section 1. Section 1146 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 2 chapter 333 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 1146. Drivers to exercise due care. (a) Notwithstanding the
 4 provisions of any other law to the contrary, every driver of a vehicle
 5 shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any bicyclist, pedestri-
 6 an, [or] domestic animal, or companion animal upon any roadway and shall
 7 give warning by sounding the horn when necessary. For the purposes of
 8 this section, the term "domestic animal" shall mean domesticated sheep,
 9 cattle, and goats which are under the supervision and control of a
 10 pedestrian; and the term "companion animal" means any dog or cat, and
 11 shall also mean any other domesticated animal normally maintained in or
 12 near the household of the owner or person who cares for such other
 13 domesticated animal.
 14 (b) 1. A driver of a motor vehicle who causes physical injury as
 15 defined in article ten of the penal law to a pedestrian [or], bicyclist,
 16 domestic animal or companion animal while failing to exercise due care
 17 in violation of subdivision (a) of this section, shall be guilty of a
 18 traffic infraction punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred
 19 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen days or by both
 20 such fine and imprisonment.
 21 2. If such driver of a motor vehicle causes physical injury while
 22 failing to exercise due care in violation of subdivision (a) of this
 23 section, then there shall be a rebuttable presumption that, as a result
 24 of such failure to exercise due care, such person operated the motor
 25 vehicle in a manner that caused such physical injury.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01383-01-5

 A. 3616 2

 1 (c) 1. A driver of a motor vehicle who causes serious physical injury
 2 as defined in article ten of the penal law to a pedestrian [or], bicy-
 3 clist, or companion animal while failing to exercise due care in
 4 violation of subdivision (a) of this section, shall be guilty of a traf-
 5 fic infraction punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty
 6 dollars or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen days or by required
 7 participation in a motor vehicle accident prevention course pursuant to
 8 paragraph (e-1) of subdivision two of section 65.10 of the penal law or
 9 by any combination of such fine, imprisonment or course, and by suspen-
 10 sion of a license or registration pursuant to subparagraph (xiv) or (xv)
 11 of paragraph b of subdivision two of section five hundred ten of this
 12 chapter.
 13 2. If such driver of a motor vehicle causes serious physical injury
 14 while failing to exercise due care in violation of subdivision (a) of
 15 this section, then there shall be a rebuttable presumption that, as a
 16 result of such failure to exercise due care, such person operated the
 17 motor vehicle in a manner that caused such serious physical injury.
 18 (d) A violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of this section