Bill Commons

NY A 205

in committee

Requires police departments to electronically transmit to parking violations bureaus a copy of each stolen vehicle report prepared; use of electronic reports in defense

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did NY A 205 pass?

Not yet. NY A 205 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

What is NY A 205 about?

Requires police departments to electronically transmit to parking violations bureaus a copy of each stolen vehicle report prepared (within 5 days of the completion thereof); provides that for the purposes of an owner asserting a defense to a charge of parking violation (that the motor vehicle had been reported stolen and had not been recovered by such time), it shall be a sufficient defense that a copy of the electronically transmitted police report is on file with the parking violations bureau.

Who sponsors NY A 205?

Simcha Eichenstein is the primary sponsor of NY A 205.

Description

Requires police departments to electronically transmit to parking violations bureaus a copy of each stolen vehicle report prepared (within 5 days of the completion thereof); provides that for the purposes of an owner asserting a defense to a charge of parking violation (that the motor vehicle had been reported stolen and had not been recovered by such time), it shall be a sufficient defense that a copy of the electronically transmitted police report is on file with the parking violations bureau.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Simcha Eichensteinprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-01-08

    REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

  • Prior session: A 2964not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 3092not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 438not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 3713not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 1140not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 3536not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 10967not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 2438not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 235not in this corpus

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/A205?summary=&detail=

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:28:30.722574Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=NY&identifier=A 205. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.