Bill Text: NY S05536 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Requires the issuance and display of a TNC driver identification card which includes such driver's name, photograph and license plate number, and additionally requires each TNC vehicle to display an illuminated sign indicating the TNC for which the TNC driver is providing the TNC service or TNC prearranged trip; requires rules to implement a machine-readable code or image.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05536 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05536-Amended.html
Bill Title: Requires the issuance and display of a TNC driver identification card which includes such driver's name, photograph and license plate number, and additionally requires each TNC vehicle to display an illuminated sign indicating the TNC for which the TNC driver is providing the TNC service or TNC prearranged trip; requires rules to implement a machine-readable code or image.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05536 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05536-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5536--B 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 6, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BRESLIN, CARLUCCI, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans- portation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted 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 iden- tification of transportation network company drivers and vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1692 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by section 2 of part AAA of chapter 59 of the laws of 3 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 5. A TNC's digital network shall display a picture of the TNC driver, 5 and provide the make, model, color and license plate number of the TNC 6 vehicle utilized for providing the TNC prearranged trip before the 7 passenger enters the TNC vehicle. The digital network shall also enable 8 the passenger to scan, with the passenger's mobile device, the vehicle's 9 machine-readable code or image required by section sixteen hundred nine- 10 ty-six of this article, prior to entering the vehicle and prior to the 11 release of payment, in order to confirm that the vehicle is the one 12 authorized for the passenger's prearranged trip. 13 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 5 of section 1696 14 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section 2 of part AAA of 15 chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, are amended and a new subdivision 6 is 16 added to read as follows: 17 (c) Upon review of all information received and retained by the TNC 18 and upon verifying that the individual is not disqualified pursuant to 19 this section from receiving a TNC driver permit, a TNC may issue a TNC 20 driver permit to the applicant. The TNC shall review all information 21 received relating to such applicant and hold such information for six EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11064-05-9S. 5536--B 2 1 years along with a certification that such applicant qualifies to 2 receive a TNC driver permit. The department shall design and promulgate 3 a TNC driver identification card to be issued by a TNC when such TNC is 4 issuing a TNC driver permit to an applicant. Such TNC driver identifi- 5 cation card shall at a minimum include the TNC driver's name, photograph 6 and license plate number. A TNC driver who is providing the TNC service 7 or TNC prearranged trip shall prominently display such TNC driver iden- 8 tification card in the TNC vehicle. 9 5. The department shall promulgate regulations to ensure that each TNC 10 vehicle is easily identified as such and that the TNC for which the TNC 11 driver is providing the TNC service or TNC prearranged trip is distin- 12 guishable. Such marking shall be in such form as is approved by the 13 commissioner, which shall at a minimum include an illuminated sign indi- 14 cating the TNC for which the TNC driver is providing the TNC service or 15 TNC prearranged trip, and shall be attached, affixed or displayed in 16 such manner as he or she may prescribe by regulation. 17 6. The department shall promulgate regulations to require each TNC 18 company to provide each TNC driver with a machine-readable code or 19 image, and to require such machine-readable code or image to be 20 displayed on the outside of each TNC vehicle. Such machine-readable code 21 or image shall be designed to allow the passenger to confirm, prior to 22 entering the vehicle, that the vehicle is the authorized vehicle for the 23 passenger's prearranged trip, using the TNC's digital network as set 24 forth in subdivision five of section sixteen hundred ninety-two of this 25 article. 26 § 3. Section 1691 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding 27 a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 28 8. "Machine-readable code or image" means an optical label that can be 29 scanned using a special scanner or a personal mobile device with a 30 built-in camera. 31 § 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 32 have become a law; provided, however that section one of this act shall 33 take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become 34 a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of 35 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on 36 its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before 37 such effective date.
