A 5440 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Imposes owner liability for failure of an operator to comply with traffic control indicators within the city of New York

Summary

Imposes owner liability for failure of an operator to comply with traffic control indicators within the city of New York through the use of traffic control indicator cameras.

Issues: ✓ Transportation

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 14, 2025 Last action Mar 12, 2026

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What changed between versions

A5440 → A5440A · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended to add three new sponsors and update its legislative history. The most significant policy change is a reduction in the time required to destroy traffic camera images from one year to 48 hours after a liability notice is resolved. Additionally, the rules for disclosing images to the public were tightened to require a specific judicial finding of relevance for criminal defense, and a new provision was added to allow image sharing with city vendors.

Scope change

The bill's scope of sponsors was expanded to include five additional Assembly members, and the bill was formally recommitted to the Transportation Committee after amendment.

REQUIREMENT

The deadline for destroying traffic camera images was shortened from one year to 48 hours after a liability notice is resolved.

A new clause was added permitting the sharing of traffic camera images between the city and its vendors for deployment purposes.

ENFORCEMENT

The criteria for disclosing images to the public via subpoena were changed to require a judge to find the information is relevant to a criminal defense, rather than just stating there is reasonable cause to believe a crime was committed.

SCOPE

The list of bill sponsors was updated to include five new members, and the bill's procedural status was updated to reflect committee recommitment.

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Committee

Amendments

Mar 12, 2026

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 5440A

lower

Mar 12, 2026

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

lower

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

lower

1 primary · 8 co-sponsors