State lawmakers have tried for years to get stiffer punishments for unlicensed drivers who seriously injure or kill people while behind the wheel.

In 2014, Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) introduced legislation targeting road menaces after 8-year old Noshat Nahian was killed by an unlicensed driver while walking to school on Northern Boulevard in December 2013. The driver had a suspended license.

Gianaris’ bill would make it a Class E felony to seriously injure a person while driving with a suspended or revoked license — or a Class D felony for an accident that results in death, which would be categorized as a new crime called “vehicular homicide.”

“Ten percent of all crashes in New York are caused by drivers with suspended or revoked licenses, and 75 percent of those drivers still get behind the wheel,” the bill states.

“Licenses are suspended for a reason: These people should not be behind the wheel of a vehicle,” it says.

The bill passed the Republican-controlled state Senate in previous years, but has languished in the Assembly. It has not been taken up yet this year.

Gianaris said he hopes the recent death of Kevin Flores — because of allegedly unlicensed truck driver Philip Monfoletto, 28 — will raise awareness, and prompt lawmakers to take action.

“It’s shocking to me we haven’t done anything,” Gianaris said. “It’s an outrage we should have addressed a long time ago.”