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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred 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 amended by
     2  chapter 92 of the laws of 2021, 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 and] cannabis and concentrated cannabis as defined in
     6  section 222.00 of the penal law and any drug or impairing substance.
     7    § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 1193 of the vehicle and
     8  traffic law is amended by  adding  a  new  subparagraph  8  to  read  as
     9  follows:
    10    (8)   Suspension  pending  prosecution;  drug  impairment.  Except  as
    11  provided in clause a-1 of subparagraph seven of this paragraph, a  court
    12  shall  suspend  a  driver's  license, pending prosecution, of any person
    13  charged with a violation of subdivision four or four-a of section eleven
    14  hundred ninety-two of this article  who,  at  the  time  of  arrest,  is
    15  alleged to have been ability impaired by drugs.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02424-01-5
Relates to drugged driving

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