Bill Text: NY A02833 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for drug and alcohol testing of school bus drivers during the required biennial medical examination and when circumstances, including but not limited to accidents, dictate a more thorough investigation and review pursuant to regulations issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A02833 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02833-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2833
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. TITONE, COOK, GALEF, BENEDETTO, ROBINSON, McKEV-
         ITT, ORTIZ, MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  CAHILL,  CURRAN,
         FINCH,  GOODELL,  HAWLEY, HOOPER, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, TENNEY, THIELE
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  drug  and
         alcohol testing of school bus drivers
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 509-g of the vehicle  and  traffic
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 149 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    1. A biennial examination pursuant to regulations established  by  the
    5  commissioner,  by  a  physician,  a  certified nurse practitioner to the
    6  extent authorized by law and consistent with the written practice agree-
    7  ment pursuant to subdivision three of section six thousand nine  hundred
    8  two of the education law, or a registered physician assistant who is not
    9  the personal physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant of the
   10  driver.  Included  shall be a requirement to conduct a vision test AND A
   11  TEST FOR THE PRESENCE OF DRUGS AND/OR ALCOHOLIC CONTENT IN THE  DRIVER'S
   12  BLOOD  AND  WHEN  CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACCIDENTS,
   13  DICTATE A MORE THOROUGH INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW pursuant to regulations
   14  issued by the commissioner.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03843-01-5