STATE OF NEW YORK
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3470
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 7, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 drugged
driving
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 114-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
2 chapter 163 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 114-a. Drug. The term "drug" when used in this chapter, means [and
4 includes any substance listed in section thirty-three hundred six of the
5 public health law] any drug or impairing substance.
6 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 1193 of the vehicle and
7 traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 8 to read as
8 follows:
9 (8) Suspension pending prosecution; drug impairment. Except as
10 provided in clause a-1 of subparagraph seven of this paragraph, a court
11 shall suspend a driver's license, pending prosecution, of any person
12 charged with a violation of subdivision four or four-a of section eleven
13 hundred ninety-two of this article who, at the time of arrest, is
14 alleged to have been ability impaired by drugs.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04071-01-9
