S 7968: Requires all individuals who ride upon or operate an electric scooter to wear a helmet that meets standards established by the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7968 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MURRAY -- 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 requiring all individuals who ride upon or operate an electric scooter to wear a helmet The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1286 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by section 10 of part XX of chapter 58 of the laws of 3 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 1. No person [sixteen or seventeen years of age] shall ride upon, 5 propel or otherwise operate an electric scooter unless such person is 6 wearing a helmet meeting standards established by the commissioner 7 pursuant to the provisions of subdivision two-a of section twelve 8 hundred thirty-eight of this title. As used in this subdivision, wear- 9 ing a helmet means having a properly fitting helmet fixed securely on 10 the head of such wearer with the helmet straps securely fastened. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13050-01-5