Bill Text: NY S03450 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3450
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        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. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 509-b of  the  vehicle  and
     2  traffic  law,  as  added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, are amended
     3  and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
     4    (3) has passed the bus driver physical examination administered pursu-
     5  ant to regulations established by the commissioner; [and]
     6    (4) is not disqualified to drive a motor vehicle pursuant  to  section
     7  five hundred nine-c of this article or any other provision of this arti-
     8  cle[.]; and
     9    (5)  displays  prominently,  in  the front of the bus, the credentials
    10  issued by the department as required in  subdivision  eight  of  section
    11  five  hundred  nine-m  of this article as proof of his or her qualifica-
    12  tions while he or she is on duty.
    13    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    14  added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended and a new  subdivi-
    15  sion 8 is added to read as follows:
    16    1.  At  least once [every three years] annually, review the bus driver
    17  files of each motor carrier, provided, however,  that  the  commissioner
    18  may  review  such  bus  driver files at his discretion at any other time
    19  during regular business hours.
    20    8. Issue new credentials, designed for  public  display,  which  shall
    21  serve as proof that a bus driver is qualified under section five hundred
    22  nine-b of this article. Such credentials shall be re-issued annually.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03968-01-9