Bill Text: NY S01076 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires contract carriers of passengers by motor vehicle to provide federal Safety Measurement System (SMS) results to potential customers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01076-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1076--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 8, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
         tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
         mitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring  safety
         reports  to  potential customers of contract carriers of passengers by
         motor vehicle
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 140 of the transportation law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
    3    11. NO CONTRACT CARRIER OF PASSENGERS BY MOTOR VEHICLE, AS DEFINED  BY
    4  SUBDIVISION  NINE  OF  SECTION  TWO  OF THIS CHAPTER, SHALL ENTER INTO A
    5  CONTRACT TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR ANY CUSTOMER  WITHOUT  FIRST  PROVIDING
    6  THAT CUSTOMER WITH:
    7    A.  A  COPY,  IN  WRITING, OF THE CONTRACT CARRIER'S THREE MOST RECENT
    8  FEDERAL SAFETY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (SMS) SCORES; PROVIDED  THAT,  IF  THE
    9  CONTRACT  CARRIER  IS  REQUIRED  TO PROVIDE SCORES FOR ANY YEAR OR YEARS
   10  PRIOR TO TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, THE  CONTRACT  CARRIER  MAY  PROVIDE  THE
   11  SCORE  OR  SCORES  CALCULATED  BY  THE  SAFETY STATUS MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
   12  (SAFESTAT) FOR THAT YEAR OR YEARS; AND
   13    B. AN EXPLANATION OF HOW THE SCORES WERE CALCULATED AND WHAT THE SCORE
   14  MEANS.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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