Bill Text: NY A07810 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the use of electronic coupling when providing prearranged transportation services to allow a passenger to confirm the prearranged match through an interactive exchange of signals on both the driver's handheld device and the passenger's handheld device.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A07810 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07810-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7810--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DE LA ROSA,  THIELE, GRIFFIN, REYES, ABBATE,
          SIMON, M. G. MILLER, ORTIZ,  MONTESANO,  LAWRENCE  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          the use of electronic coupling when providing prearranged  transporta-
          tion services to passengers

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

     1    Section 1.  Article 33 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new section 1229-e to read as follows:
     3    §  1229-e.  Additional safety requirements for vehicles engaged in the
     4  transportation of passengers. Any entity that provides a digital network
     5  or application accessible by a handheld device to facilitate prearranged
     6  transportation services to passengers, including  services  provided  in
     7  transportation  network  company vehicles, as defined in section sixteen
     8  hundred ninety-one of this chapter,  for-hire-vehicles,  as  defined  by
     9  section  19-502  of the administrative code of the city of New York, and
    10  other commercial vehicles engaged  in  the  for-hire  transportation  of
    11  passengers,  shall  provide  a system of interactive electronic coupling
    12  between the passenger and the driver assigned to pick the passenger  up.
    13  Upon  the  arrival of such a vehicle or at any time during a prearranged
    14  ride, the electronic coupling shall allow a  passenger  to  confirm  the
    15  prearranged match through an interactive exchange of signals on both the
    16  driver's handheld device and the passenger's handheld device.
    17    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    18  law. Effective immediately, the department of motor vehicles is  author-
    19  ized  to  promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary for the
    20  implementation of this act on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11811-03-9