Bill Text: NY A02188 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the display of a bus driver's credentials prominently while he or she is on duty and changes the review of his or her files by the department from every three years to annually.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A02188 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02188-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2188--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Transportation   --   committee   discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  again
          reported  from  said  committee  with amendments, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the display-
          ing of a bus driver's credentials while he or she is on duty  and  the
          review of his or her files

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 509-dd to read as follows:
     3    §  509-dd.  Passenger  motor  carrier information. The commissioner of
     4  transportation, in consultation with the commissioner,  shall  establish
     5  requirements  for  motor carriers required to obtain approval to operate
     6  as a common or contract carrier of passengers by motor vehicle from  the
     7  commissioner  of transportation for purposes of establishing conspicuous
     8  display of valid operating authority, inspection information, and driver
     9  qualifications at locations  where  such  persons  or  entities  perform
    10  contract  or common carrier services with such motor vehicles and within
    11  any motor vehicle used to provide such services.  For  the  purposes  of
    12  this  section,  "motor  carriers"  shall not include buses referenced in
    13  paragraph (a) or (e) of subdivision one of section five  hundred  nine-a
    14  of this article.
    15    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    16  added  by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended and a new subdivi-
    17  sion 8 is added to read as follows:
    18    1. At least once [every three years] annually, review the  bus  driver
    19  files  of  each  motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner
    20  may review such bus driver files at his discretion  at  any  other  time
    21  during regular business hours.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03968-05-9

        A. 2188--B                          2

     1    8.  Issue  new  credentials,  designed for public display, which shall
     2  serve as proof that a  bus  driver  is  qualified  under  sections  five
     3  hundred  nine-b  and  five hundred nine-dd of this article. Such creden-
     4  tials shall be re-issued annually.
     5    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     6  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
     7  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
     8  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
     9  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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