Bill Text: NY A03499 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to promulgate rules and regulations to implement GPS and an emergency communications system on school buses.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A03499 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03499-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3499
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  education  law,  in
          relation  to  using  GPS  and implementing an emergency communications
          system on school buses
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 21-j to read as follows:
     3    21-j. The commissioner,  in  consultation  with  the  commissioner  of
     4  education,  shall promulgate rules and regulations for the use of global
     5  positioning system technologies and protocols for an emergency  communi-
     6  cations  system  on  school  buses. Such emergency communications system
     7  shall utilize the global positioning system technologies to assist driv-
     8  ers and passengers in the event of an emergency  or  a  situation  where
     9  such school buses need to be located and assisted.
    10    §  2.  Section  305  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
    11  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
    12    57. The commissioner, in consultation with the boards of education  of
    13  the state, shall assist the commissioner of motor vehicles in promulgat-
    14  ing rules and regulations for the use of global positioning system tech-
    15  nologies  and protocols for an emergency communications system on school
    16  buses pursuant to subdivision  twenty-one-j  of  section  three  hundred
    17  seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05512-01-9