Bill Text: NY A04663 | 2015-2016 | 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 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) 2016-01-06 - referred to cities [A04663 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04663-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4663
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 5, 2015
                                      ___________
       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 19-544 to read as follows:
    3    S 19-544 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    S  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.
                                                                  LBD00354-02-5
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