Assembly Bill A689

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires operators of bicycles, skateboards and in-line skates who are under 18 years of age to wear protective headgear

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A689 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1238, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A359
2011-2012: A4329
2013-2014: A473
2015-2016: A1392
2019-2020: A1821
2021-2022: A1348
2023-2024: A166

2017-A689 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires operators of bicycles, skateboards, inline skates and scooters who are under eighteen years of age to wear protective headgear; increases the age requirement from fourteen years to eighteen years.

2017-A689 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    689
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of A.  GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Trans-
   portation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to required
   protective headgear for operators of  bicycles,  skateboards,  in-line
   skates and scooters under eighteen years of age

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading, paragraphs (a) and (b) of  subdivision
 5, and subdivisions 5-a, 5-b, 8 and 9 of section 1238 of the vehicle and
 traffic  law,  the section heading as amended by chapter 267 of the laws
 of 1993, paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 5 as amended  by  chapter
 457  of  the  laws of 1999, subdivisions 5-a and 9 as amended by chapter
 703 of the laws of 2004, subdivision 5-b as added by chapter 402 of  the
 laws of 2001, and subdivision 8 as amended by chapter 694 of the laws of
 1995, are amended and a new subdivision 11 is added to read as follows:
   Passengers  on  bicycles  under one year of age prohibited; passengers
 and operators under [fourteen] EIGHTEEN years of age to wear  protective
 headgear.
   (a)  No  person  operating a bicycle shall allow a person five or more
 years of age and less than [fourteen] EIGHTEEN years of age to ride as a
 passenger on a bicycle unless such passenger is wearing a helmet meeting
 standards established by the commissioner.
   (b) No person, one or more years of age and less than [fourteen] EIGH-
 TEEN years of age, shall operate a bicycle unless such person is wearing
 a helmet meeting standards established by the commissioner.
   5-a. No person, one or more years of  age  and  less  than  [fourteen]
 EIGHTEEN years of age, shall skate or glide on in-line skates or a skate
 board  unless  such  person is wearing a helmet meeting standards estab-
 lished by the commissioner. For the purposes of this subdivision,  wear-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00500-01-7
              

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