Bill Text: NY A00873 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of transportation of the city of New York to develop a program on dangers of prostitution and trafficking and legal consequences thereof, required to be completed by commercial passenger drivers as a condition of licensure and renewal of licensing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to cities [A00873 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00873-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 873 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, COLTON, JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a sex crime safety program for commercial passenger drivers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended 2 by adding a new section 19-551 to read as follows: 3 § 19-551 Sex crime education program. The commissioner shall develop a 4 program that will educate drivers of taxicabs, coaches, wheelchair 5 accessible vans, commuter vans and for-hire vehicles on the dangers of 6 prostitution and the legal ramifications of trafficking prostitutes. 7 Completion of such program by such drivers shall be a requirement for 8 initial licensure and subsequent license renewal. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become 10 a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01389-01-9