Bill Text: NY A02044 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring safety enclosures for motor buses used in mass transportation.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-15 - enacting clause stricken [A02044 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A02044-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2044
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. STEVENSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
ARROYO, CAMARA, COOK, FARRELL, FINCH, HIKIND, HOOPER, ROBINSON, WEPRIN
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring safety
enclosures for motor buses used in mass transportation
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 140 of the transportation law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
3 7-A. THE COMMISSIONER, BY RULE OR REGULATION, SHALL REQUIRE ALL MOTOR
4 BUSES USED IN MASS TRANSPORTATION, TO HAVE INSTALLED A SAFETY ENCLOSURE
5 TO PROTECT BUS DRIVERS FROM ASSAULT OR INJURY CAUSED BY PASSENGERS.
6 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
7 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
8 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
9 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
10 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00994-01-3
