A 620: Relates to driving while ability is impaired by drugs.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 620 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ 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