Bill Text: NY S03450 | 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: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-03 - referred to transportation [S03450 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03450-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3450--B 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 -- 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 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. LBD03968-04-9S. 3450--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.