Requires anyone under age sixteen who is riding upon, propelling or otherwise operating an electric scooter, electric personal assistive mobility device, or bicycle with electric assist or is a passenger on such electric scooter, electric personal assistive mobility device, or bicycle with electric assist to wear approved protective headwear.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8959
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to protective
headwear requirements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 1286 of
2 the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section 10 of part XX of chap-
3 ter 58 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
4 Operators and passengers to wear protective headgear. 1. No person
5 under the age of sixteen [or seventeen years of age] shall ride upon,
6 propel or otherwise operate an electric scooter, electric personal
7 assistive mobility device, or bicycle with electric assist or be a
8 passenger on such electric scooter, electric personal assistive mobility
9 device, or bicycle with electric assist unless such person is wearing a
10 helmet meeting standards established by the commissioner pursuant to the
11 provisions of subdivision two-a of section twelve hundred thirty-eight
12 of this title. As used in this subdivision, wearing a helmet means
13 having a properly fitting helmet fixed securely on the head of such
14 wearer with the helmet straps securely fastened.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13588-01-5
