Assembly BillPassed first house
A 1994: Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment.
What A 1994 does, verified April 30, 2026
<p>The bill amends the Vehicle and Traffic Law to improve the process for handling parking infractions. If a notice of violation is issued but contains missing, misdescribed, or illegible information, the violation will be dismissed upon application by the person charged. The changes take effect 90 days after the bill becomes law and apply to notices of violation issued after that date.</p>
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Last action: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION (2026-04-28)Alert me
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| Apr. 28, 2026 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION |
| Apr. 28, 2026 | delivered to senate |
| Apr. 28, 2026 | passed assembly |
| Jan. 07, 2026 | ordered to third reading cal.77 |
| Jan. 07, 2026 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 14, 2025 · 218 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1994 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, RIVERA, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, HYNDMAN, WILLIAMS, TAYLOR, JACOBSON, SEAWRIGHT, BENDETT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, LEVENBERG, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking infractions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2-a of section 238 of the 2 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 224 of the laws of 1995, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) If any information which is required to be inserted on a notice of 5 violation is omitted from the notice of violation, misdescribed, or 6 illegible, the violation shall be dismissed [upon application of the7person charged with the violation]. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 9 have become a law and shall apply to notices of violation issued on and 10 after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05495-01-5
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