Bill Text: NY A08227 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of transportation to establish a central registry of reports, audits, plans and public inspections regarding freight rail operators, rail cars and freight lines or routes and rights of way.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A08227 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08227-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8227

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG,  SHIMSKY,  BURDICK, L. ROSENTHAL,
          TAYLOR, DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Trans-
          portation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the transportation law, in relation to requiring the
          department of  transportation  to  establish  a  central  registry  of
          reports,  audits, plans  and public inspections for freight trains and
          freight rail lines

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

     1    Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 37 to read as follows:
     3    37.    To  establish  a  publicly  available  central  registry of all
     4  reports, audits, plans and public  inspections  regarding  freight  rail
     5  operators,  freight  rail  cars and train sets, freight lines or routes,
     6  and freight railroad corporation  rights  of  way.  Such  reports  shall
     7  include,  without  limitation,  daily  inspection reports, safety plans,
     8  track inspection reports, bridge and tunnel inspection  reports,  safety
     9  incident  reports,  and  annual bridge and tunnel certifications by such
    10  railroad corporations. The commissioner or her  or  his  designee  shall
    11  maintain and regularly update such registry. Provided, further, that the
    12  commissioner  or  her or his designee may redact any records or portions
    13  thereof that are specifically  exempted  from  disclosure  by  state  or
    14  federal statute or regulation.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10337-02-3