Bill Text: NY A11013 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 11013 (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) 2020-09-09 - referred to transportation [A11013 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11013-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11013

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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.
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