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Requires any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs to complete a drinking driver program as a condition of their sentence
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Adriano Espaillat
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Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs to complete a drinking driver program as a condition of their sentence
Purpose of bill
To ensure that a person convicted of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs is mandated as a condition of his or her sentence to participate in the Drinking Driver Program and receive an evaluation conducted by an addiction professional from an Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services licensed program and require that the offender pay the cost of the program.
Summary of specific provisions
Subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows: "Where the court imposes a sentence for any violation of section eleven hundred ninety-two or section eleven hundred ninety-two-a of this article, the court shall require the defendant, as a condition of such sentence, to complete a drinking driver program licensed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and taught by a substance abuse professional who is credentialed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services pursuant to section 19 07 of the mental hygiene law, and receive an evaluation conducted by the substance abuse professional teaching the program The fee for attending such program shall be paid by the defendant.
Justification
Due to the continued, unnecessarily high number of DWI convictions throughout the City and State of New York, and because under the current system many convicted offenders choose not to participate in the Drinking Driver Program and may receive evaluations from individual practitioners or programs with no accountability to OASAS or even no evaluation, it is necessary to mandate that those convicted of DWI participate, get evaluated by and pay the cost of said programs
The inability of authorities to assure that an individual arrested and convicted of drunk driving offense does not get out on the road again under the influence of alcohol is a significant failure of our State laws and criminal justice system to control drunk driving, This bill will come a long way to remedy this failure.
Legislative history
S.770 2007-08
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the dale on which it shall have become a law.
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