Bill Text: NY A02316 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to promulgate rules and regulations to implement GPS and an emergency communications system on school buses.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02316 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02316-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2316

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SIMON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
          DAVILA, DeSTEFANO, HYNDMAN, PAULIN, REILLY, REYES, SAYEGH,  TAYLOR  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law and the education law, in
          relation to using GPS and  implementing  an  emergency  communications
          system on school buses

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

     1    Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 21-k to read as follows:
     3    21-k.  The  commissioner,  in  consultation  with  the commissioner of
     4  education, shall promulgate rules and regulations for the use of  global
     5  positioning  system technologies and protocols for an emergency communi-
     6  cations system on school buses.  Such  emergency  communications  system
     7  shall utilize the global positioning system technologies to assist driv-
     8  ers  and  passengers  in  the event of an emergency or a situation where
     9  such school buses need to be located and assisted.
    10    § 2. Section 305 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    11  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
    12    57.  The commissioner, in consultation with the boards of education of
    13  the state, shall assist the commissioner of motor vehicles in promulgat-
    14  ing rules and regulations for the use of global positioning system tech-
    15  nologies and protocols for an emergency communications system on  school
    16  buses  pursuant  to  subdivision  twenty-one-k  of section three hundred
    17  seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01976-01-3