Bill Text: NY S07658 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a pilot program to authorize the use of high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring technology to detect the number of occupants in a vehicle and to report on the efficiency rates of such technology and to make recommendations on how such technology can be implemented statewide.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-04 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07658 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07658-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7658 IN SENATE February 4, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to establishing a pilot program for high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring tech- nology The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section 2 23 to read as follows: 3 § 23. Pilot program for high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring 4 technology. 1. For purposes of this section "high-occupancy vehicle 5 compliance monitoring technology" means technology that detects the 6 number of occupants in a vehicle. 7 2. The department shall, in cooperation with the superintendent of 8 state police, the commissioner of motor vehicles, the chairman of the 9 New York state thruway authority and local law enforcement agencies, 10 develop and implement rules and regulations for the creation of a pilot 11 program for high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring technology. 12 3. Within twelve months of the commencement of the pilot program, the 13 department shall submit a report to the temporary president of the 14 senate, the speaker of the assembly and the governor. Such report shall 15 include information regarding the efficiency of high-occupancy vehicle 16 compliance monitoring technology and the impact of the uses of such 17 technology on the number of high-occupancy vehicle lane violations. 18 Such report shall include the efficiency rates of such technology and, 19 when such efficiency rates are above the ninetieth percentile, recommen- 20 dations on how such technology can be implemented statewide. 21 4. The department is authorized to enroll, or to apply for enrollment, 22 in any federal pilot program or project for the collection and study of 23 data related to the use of high-occupancy vehicle compliance monitoring 24 technology. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04264-01-9