Bill Text: NY S06012 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the use of electronic coupling when providing prearranged transportation services to allow a passenger to confirm the prearranged match through an interactive exchange of signals on both the driver's handheld device and the passenger's handheld device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06012 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06012-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6012--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          the  use of electronic coupling when providing prearranged transporta-
          tion services to passengers

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

     1    Section  1.    Article 33 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new section 1229-e to read as follows:
     3    § 1229-e. Additional safety requirements for vehicles engaged  in  the
     4  transportation of passengers. Any entity that provides a digital network
     5  or application accessible by a handheld device to facilitate prearranged
     6  transportation  services  to  passengers, including services provided in
     7  transportation network company vehicles, as defined in  section  sixteen
     8  hundred  ninety-one  of  this  chapter, for-hire-vehicles, as defined by
     9  section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New  York,  and
    10  other  commercial  vehicles  engaged  in  the for-hire transportation of
    11  passengers, shall provide a system of  interactive  electronic  coupling
    12  between  the passenger and the driver assigned to pick the passenger up.
    13  Upon the arrival of such a vehicle or at any time during  a  prearranged
    14  ride,  the  electronic  coupling  shall allow a passenger to confirm the
    15  prearranged match through an interactive exchange of signals on both the
    16  driver's handheld device and the passenger's handheld device.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    18  law.  Effective immediately, the department of motor vehicles is author-
    19  ized to promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary  for  the
    20  implementation of this act on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11811-02-9