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A9209 • 2025

Relates to lights for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters

Relates to lights for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
William Conrad
Last action
2026-05-29
Official status
Passed Senate
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to lights for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters

Relates to lights for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters Requires any person, firm, association or corporation selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to lights for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters Requires any person, firm, association or corporation selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-29 Senate

    SUBSTITUTED FOR S8948A

  2. 2026-05-29 Senate

    3RD READING CAL.1273

  3. 2026-05-29 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  4. 2026-05-29 Senate

    RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

  5. 2026-05-04 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  6. 2026-05-04 Assembly

    DELIVERED TO SENATE

  7. 2026-05-04 Senate

    REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

  8. 2026-03-26 Assembly

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.334

  9. 2026-03-24 Assembly

    REPORTED

  10. 2026-03-19 Assembly

    AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

  11. 2026-03-19 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 9209A

  12. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

  13. 2025-11-03 Assembly

    REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Relates to lights for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters
Requires any person, firm, association or corporation selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9209

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    November 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to manufactur-
          ers providing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters with
          lights

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section 1242 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14. NO MANUFACTURER ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF SHIPPING BICYCLES  WITH
     4  ELECTRIC  ASSIST  IN NEW YORK STATE SHALL SHIP ANY BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC
     5  ASSIST UNLESS SUCH BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST HAS PERMANENTLY  AFFIXED
     6  THERETO,  A  LAMP  ON  THE  FRONT WHICH SHALL EMIT A WHITE LIGHT VISIBLE
     7  DURING HOURS OF DARKNESS FROM A DISTANCE OF AT LEAST FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET
     8  TO THE FRONT AND WITH A RED OR AMBER LIGHT VISIBLE TO THE REAR FOR THREE
     9  HUNDRED  FEET.  AT  LEAST  ONE  OF  SUCH LIGHTS SHALL BE VISIBLE FOR TWO
    10  HUNDRED FEET FROM EACH SIDE.
    11    § 2. Section 1285 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding
    12  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    13    4.  NO  MANUFACTURER OF ELECTRIC SCOOTERS SHALL SHIP ANY SUCH ELECTRIC
    14  SCOOTERS IN NEW YORK STATE THAT ARE NOT EQUIPPED WITH  A  LAMP  AND  RED
    15  LIGHT AS REQUIRED UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
    16    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13941-01-5