Bill Text: NY A04073 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to expanding required disclosure of information regarding safety issues for certain motor carriers, specifically stretch limousines.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A04073 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04073-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4073

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
          department  of transportation to provide information regarding federal
          safety fitness standards for certain motor carriers

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as
     2  amended by chapter 12 of the  laws  of  2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    9.  To maintain and annually update its website to provide information
     5  with regard to each bus operator or motor  carrier  under  subparagraphs
     6  (ii)  and  (vi) of paragraph a of subdivision two of section one hundred
     7  forty of this article  requiring  department  operating  authority  that
     8  includes   the  bus  operator's  or  motor  carrier's  name,  number  of
     9  inspections, number of out of service  orders,  operator  identification
    10  number,  location  and  region  of operation including place of address,
    11  percentile to which an operator or motor carrier falls with  respect  to
    12  out  of  service  defects,  the  number  or percentage of out of service
    13  defects where pursuant to the commissioner's regulations  no  inspection
    14  certificate  shall  be  issued until the defect is repaired and a re-in-
    15  spection is conducted, and the number  of  serious  physical  injury  or
    16  fatal crashes involving a for-hire vehicle requiring operating authority
    17  pursuant to this article, and any additional publicly available informa-
    18  tion  provided  in  accordance  with the safety fitness standards estab-
    19  lished pursuant to part 385 of title 49 of the  code  of  federal  regu-
    20  lations.
    21    §  2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 10 of section
    22  138 of the transportation law, as added by chapter  5  of  the  laws  of
    23  2020, is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05588-01-3
        A. 4073                             2

     1    (iii)  In  consultation and cooperation with the commissioner of motor
     2  vehicles, the commissioner shall report on  safety  issues  reported  to
     3  such website, and toll-free hotline and related investigations summariz-
     4  ing  (A)  the total number of safety issue reports received and the type
     5  of  safety issues reported; (B) the total number of safety issue reports
     6  received and the type of safety issues reported where  the  commissioner
     7  or  the  commissioner  of  motor  vehicles,  as applicable, verified the
     8  information provided; (C) enforcement actions and other responses  taken
     9  by  the  commissioner or the commissioner of motor vehicles, as applica-
    10  ble, to safety issue reports received  where  the  commissioner  or  the
    11  commissioner  of motor vehicles, as applicable, has verified such infor-
    12  mation; and (D) the length of time between the receipt of  safety  issue
    13  reports  from  such  website, or hotline and enforcement action or other
    14  response by the commissioner or the commissioner of motor  vehicles,  as
    15  applicable.  Such report shall be made publicly available on the depart-
    16  ment's website in a searchable format, [and] shall be published no  less
    17  than once annually, and shall compare the previous three years of report
    18  data  to  the extent applicable. Such report may also be included within
    19  the department's annual report submitted pursuant to  subdivision  thir-
    20  teen of section fourteen of this chapter.
    21    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    22  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
    23  rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
    24  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
    25  effective date.