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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 Brian Kavanagh
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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 motor vehicles 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
Section 1: Subdivision 1 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to provide that where the court imposes a sentence for any violation of VTL §§ 1192 or 1192-a it shall require the defendant, as a condition of such sentence, to complete a drinking driver program approved by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and receive an evaluation by a program licensed by the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS).
Section 2: Effective Date.
Justification
Due to the continued, unnecessarily high number of DWI convictions throughout the state, 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, and in some cases no evaluation, it is necessary to mandate that those convicted of DWI participate in the program.
Legislative history
2003: A07934A (R. Diaz) - Transportation 2004: A07934A (R. Diaz) -Transportation 2005: A03572 (R. Diaz) - Transportation 2006: A03572 (R. Diaz) - Transportation 2007: A02106 (R. Diaz) - Transportation 2008: A021 06 (R. Diaz) - Transportation 2009: A03693 (R. Diaz) - Enacting Clause Stricken
Fiscal implications
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Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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