Bill Text: NY S08929 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending workers' compensation coverage to certain TNC drivers including a TNC driver that is logged onto a TNC digital network and is not engaged in a TNC prearranged trip but is engaged in an activity reasonably related to driving as a TNC driver.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-07-10 - SIGNED CHAP.119 [S08929 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08929-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8929
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 6, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  extending  workers'
          compensation coverage to certain TNC drivers; and to amend part AAA of
          chapter  59  of the laws of 2017, amending the vehicle and traffic law
          and other laws relating to the regulation  of  transportation  network
          company services and establishing the New York State TNC Accessibility
          Task  Force  and  the  New  York  state transportation network company
          review board, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 1 of section 160-cc of the
     2  executive law, as added by section 11 of part AAA of chapter 59  of  the
     3  laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  For  the  purposes of the administration of this article, a black
     5  car operator shall include a TNC  driver  that  is  logged  onto  a  TNC
     6  digital  network  and  is  not  engaged in a TNC prearranged trip but is
     7  engaged in an activity reasonably related to driving  as  a  TNC  driver
     8  taking  into consideration the time, place and manner of such activity[,
     9  however, that this paragraph shall only apply to a TNC driver  permitted
    10  pursuant  to  article forty-four-B of the vehicle and traffic law within
    11  twelve months of the effective date of this paragraph].
    12    § 2. Section 26 of part AAA of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017 amending
    13  the vehicle and traffic law and other laws relating to the regulation of
    14  transportation network company services and establishing  the  New  York
    15  State TNC Accessibility Task Force and the New York state transportation
    16  network  company  review  board, as amended by chapter 34 of the laws of
    17  2017, is amended to read as follows:
    18    § 26. This act shall take effect on the eightieth day after  it  shall
    19  have  become  a  law;  provided  that the amendments to subdivision 1 of
    20  section 171-a of the tax law made by section fifteen of this  act  shall
    21  not  affect  the  expiration of such subdivision and shall expire there-
    22  with, when upon such date the provisions of section sixteen of this  act
    23  shall  take effect[; provided however that coverage provided pursuant to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 160-cc of the executive law as
     2  added by section eleven of this act shall be deemed  repealed  one  year
     3  from  the  effective  date  of this act; provided, further, that any TNC
     4  driver  permitted to operate prior to the repeal of such paragraph shall
     5  not see a reduction in coverage].
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.