S08948 Summary:
| BILL NO | S08948 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A09209 |
| SPONSOR | RYAN C |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §§1242 & 1285, V & T L | |
| Requires manufacturers shipping bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights. | |
S08948 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8948 IN SENATE January 20, 2026 ___________ Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 manufactur- ers providing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters with lights The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1242 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows: 3 14. No manufacturer engaged in the business of shipping bicycles with 4 electric assist in New York state shall ship any bicycle with electric 5 assist unless such bicycle with electric assist has permanently affixed 6 thereto, a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible 7 during hours of darkness from a distance of at least five hundred feet 8 to the front and with a red or amber light visible to the rear for three 9 hundred feet. At least one of such lights shall be visible for two 10 hundred feet from each side. 11 § 2. Section 1285 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding 12 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 13 4. No manufacturer of electric scooters shall ship any such electric 14 scooters in New York state that are not equipped with a lamp and red 15 light as required under subdivision one of this section. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13941-01-5