Establishes the crime of aggravated distracted driving; provides that such crime shall be a misdemeanor; requires the motor vehicle operator's driver's license to be revoked; provides that the registration may be revoked.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10323
IN SENATE
May 13, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the opera-
tion of a motor vehicle while using mobile telephones or portable
electronic devices
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. Aggravated distracted driving. 1. No person shall operate a
4 motor vehicle in violation of sections twelve hundred twenty-five-c or
5 twelve hundred twenty-five-d of this article while a child who is
6 fifteen years of age or less is a passenger in such motor vehicle.
7 2. A violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor and shall be
8 punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than
9 one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in a penitentiary or county
10 jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
11 3. Upon a conviction for a violation of this section, the operator's
12 driver's license shall be revoked and a registration may be revoked for
13 a period of six months.
14 4. Where a court fails to impose or incorrectly imposes a revocation
15 as required by this section, the commissioner shall, upon receipt of a
16 certificate of conviction filed pursuant to section five hundred four-
17 teen of this chapter, impose such mandated revocation, which shall
18 supersede any such order which the court may have imposed.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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