Bill Text: NY A08509 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain motor vehicles to have rear passenger detection warning systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-06 - enacting clause stricken [A08509 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08509-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8509

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the required
          equipment of certain motor vehicles

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 375 of the  vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
     3    g. It shall be unlawful to operate on any public highway in this state
     4  a  motor vehicle registered in this state with a gross vehicle weight of
     5  ten thousand pounds or less, manufactured or assembled after July first,
     6  two thousand twenty-one unless such motor vehicle  is  equipped  with  a
     7  functioning system that can detect the presence of an occupant in a rear
     8  seat  by  identifying that a seat belt is latched and that the weight on
     9  the seat is over twenty pounds after the  vehicle  engine  or  motor  is
    10  deactivated  and  provide a warning. For the purposes of this paragraph,
    11  "motor vehicle" shall not include a motorcycle, a commercial motor vehi-
    12  cle as defined in section two of the transportation law, or  combination
    13  of a commercial motor vehicle and trailer.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
    15  court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that this  act  would
    16  render New York state out of compliance with federal law or regulation.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect one hundred eighty days after it shall
    18  have  become  a  law;  provided  that the commissioner of motor vehicles
    19  shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission  upon  the  occur-
    20  rence  of  the  provisions  of section two of this act in order that the
    21  commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective  data  base  of
    22  the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
    23  effectuating  the  provisions  of  section 44 of the legislative law and
    24  section 70-b of the public  officers  law.  Effective  immediately,  the
    25  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    26  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    27  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13575-01-9