Bill Text: NY A05690 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5690 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to establishing the statewide transportation network company drivers misconduct database; requires the department of motor vehicles to establish a database and compile the names of any transportation network company drivers who have had their employment terminated due to misconduct.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A05690 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05690-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5690

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          the  statewide transportation network company drivers misconduct data-
          base

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

     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 1699-a to read as follows:
     3    § 1699-a. Statewide transportation network company drivers  misconduct
     4  database.  1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
     5  department shall establish a statewide database accessible to  transpor-
     6  tation  network  companies  and  government  officials  approved  by the
     7  department which shall compile the names of any  transportation  network
     8  company  drivers who have had their employment terminated due to miscon-
     9  duct, including but not limited to sexual violence, assault and  harass-
    10  ment,  and  any  other  disqualifying  criminal  convictions  in section
    11  sixteen hundred ninety-nine of this article.
    12    2. Each transportation network company in this state shall  report  to
    13  the  department,  in  a form and manner as defined in regulations by the
    14  department, all information necessary to compile and maintain the  data-
    15  base  established  pursuant to this section. Each transportation network
    16  company shall report any termination of a driver  within  five  business
    17  days of such termination.
    18    3. To ensure the safety of passengers and the public, a transportation
    19  network  company  shall check the database prior to authorizing a person
    20  to drive for such company and annually thereafter, however, the  depart-
    21  ment may require, pursuant to regulation, more frequent checks.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    24  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    25  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    26  on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03786-01-1