S 5844: Prevents relicensing of drivers who have been twice convicted of certain violations relating to driving where physical injury occurs.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5844 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain convictions which shall preclude relicensing of drivers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of 2 section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 732 3 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows: 4 (3) In no event shall a new license be issued where a person has been 5 twice convicted of a violation of [subdivision] any combination of, 6 subdivision two, two-a, three, four or four-a of section eleven hundred 7 ninety-two of this article [or of driving while intoxicated or of driv- 8 ing while ability is impaired by the use of a drug or of driving while 9 ability is impaired by the combined influence of drugs or of alcohol and 10 any drug or drugs], or of section 120.03, 120.04, 120.04-a, 125.12, 11 125.13, or 125.14 of the penal law, where physical injury, as defined in 12 section 10.00 of the penal law, has resulted from such offense in each 13 instance. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04725-01-5