What's happening
This bill mandates license revocation and a conditional license period for those convicted of certain serious vehicular crimes.
Why it matters
Targets serious vehicular offenses. The bill specifically applies to convictions under Penal Law sections 120.03, 120.04, 125.12, and 125.13, which cover crimes like vehicular assault and vehicular manslaughter—meaning it focuses on the most severe and harmful driving-related crimes.
Creates a mandatory “cooling-off” period. By imposing a six-month full license revocation, the bill ensures that individuals convicted of these offenses are temporarily taken off the road, which could reduce the risk of repeat dangerous behavior and enhance public safety.
Establishes a monitored re-entry. After revocation, the offender can only drive with a conditional license for one year, strictly limiting their driving to essential activities (like work or medical appointments), which aims to balance rehabilitation opportunities with continued public protection.
Standardizes consequences across New York. By specifying these penalties in state law, the bill seeks to ensure consistent, predictable consequences for serious vehicular crimes across the state, potentially addressing disparities in how such cases are handled.
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Who cares
Drivers convicted under Penal Law §§ 120.03, 120.04, 125.12 or 125.13
They would face mandatory license revocation for six months, followed by one year of driving under a post-revocation conditional license.
Department of Motor Vehicles
The bill would add these convictions to the mandatory revocation provisions and require a subsequent conditional-license period.
Defense attorneys representing drivers
They would need to advise clients about the licensing consequences for covered convictions entered on or after the bill’s effective date, 90 days after becoming law.
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Revoke Licenses for Serious Crimes
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Sponsors
9 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Revoke Licenses for Serious Crimes
In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
151
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO, COOK, SEAWRIGHT, LAWRENCE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to revocation of licenses in certain cases
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3-a to read as follows:
(3-a) Conviction of a crime pursuant to any of the following sections of the penal law: 120.03, 120.04, 125.12 or 125.13. Six months followed by a period of one year of operating under a post-revocation conditional license, in accordance with subdivision three of section eleven hundred ninety-eight of this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law and shall apply to convictions entered on and after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00689-01-9
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