What's happening
This bill increases the license revocation period for repeat DWI offenders in New York from one year to three years.
Why it matters
Lengthening license revocation for repeat DWI offenders from one to three years. significantly increases the time individuals are barred from legally driving, which may act as a greater deterrent and reduce repeat offenses.
Extending revocation for certain aggravated offenses to four and a half years. means those convicted of the most serious DWI violations (such as aggravated DWI or repeat offenses within ten years) will face even longer periods off the road, potentially enhancing public safety.
Targeting drivers with repeat offenses within a ten-year window. reflects a legislative focus on those with demonstrated patterns of dangerous behavior, aiming to keep high-risk drivers off the roads for longer periods.
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Suspend DWI Repeat Licenses
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History
- Referred to transportation
- Held for consideration in transportation
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1467
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, FINCH, KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the revocation of a driver's license where driver has already been convicted of driving while intoxicated
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 732 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
(3) Driving while intoxicated or while ability impaired by drugs or while ability impaired by the combined influence of drugs or of alcohol and any drug or drugs; aggravated driving while intoxicated; prior offense. [One year] Three years, where the holder is convicted of a violation of subdivision two, three, four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article committed within ten years of a conviction for a violation of subdivision two, three, four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article. [Eighteen months] Four and one-half years, where the holder is convicted of a violation of subdivision two-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article committed within ten years of a conviction for a violation of subdivision two, two-a, three, four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article; or where the holder is convicted of a violation of subdivision two, three, four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this article committed within ten years of a conviction for a violation of subdivision two-a of section eleven hundred ninetytwo of this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03040-01-9
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