Bill Text: NY S00978 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to parking spaces for handicapped persons; provides that the commissioner of motor vehicles shall provide in any pre-licensing course a mandatory component of education of the laws relating to handicapped accessible parking.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00978 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00978-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 978--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking spaces for handicapped persons The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 502 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 355 of the laws of 2017, is 3 amended and a new paragraph (i) is added to read as follows: 4 (b) Upon successful completion of the requirements set forth in para- 5 graph (a) of this subdivision which shall include an alcohol and drug 6 education component as described in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, a 7 "Road Rage" awareness component as described in paragraph (c-1) of this 8 subdivision and a "Work Zone Safety" awareness component as described in 9 paragraph (c-2) of this subdivision, and a "Motorcycle Safety" awareness 10 component as described in paragraph (c-3) of this subdivision, and 11 instruction in the laws relating to parking spaces for the handicapped 12 as described in paragraph (i) of this subdivision, the commissioner 13 shall cause the applicant to take a road test in a representative vehi- 14 cle of a type prescribed by the commissioner which shall be appropriate 15 to the type of license for which application is made, except that the 16 commissioner may waive the road test requirements for certain classes of 17 applicants. The commissioner shall have the power to establish a program 18 to allow persons other than employees of the department to conduct road 19 tests in representative vehicles when such tests are required for appli- 20 cants to obtain a class A, B or C license. If he or she chooses to do 21 so, he or she shall set forth her reasons in writing and conduct a EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05931-03-0S. 978--A 2 1 public hearing on the matter. [She] He or she shall only establish such 2 a program after holding the public hearing. 3 (i) The commissioner shall provide in the pre-licensing course, set 4 forth in paragraph (b) of this subdivision a mandatory component in 5 education of the laws relating to handicapped accessible parking. 6 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 502 of the vehicle and 7 traffic law, as amended by chapter 513 of the laws of 2019, is amended 8 to read as follows: 9 (b) Upon successful completion of the requirements set forth in para- 10 graph (a) of this subdivision which shall include an alcohol and drug 11 education component as described in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, a 12 "Road Rage" awareness component as described in paragraph (c-1) of this 13 subdivision and a "Work Zone Safety" awareness component as described in 14 paragraph (c-2) of this subdivision, a "Motorcycle Safety" awareness 15 component as described in paragraph (c-3) of this subdivision, and a 16 "School Bus Safety" awareness component as described in paragraph (c-4) 17 of this subdivision, and instruction in the laws relating to parking 18 spaces for the handicapped as described in paragraph (i) of this subdi- 19 vision, the commissioner shall cause the applicant to take a road test 20 in a representative vehicle of a type prescribed by the commissioner 21 which shall be appropriate to the type of license for which application 22 is made, except that the commissioner may waive the road test require- 23 ments for certain classes of applicants. The commissioner shall have the 24 power to establish a program to allow persons other than employees of 25 the department to conduct road tests in representative vehicles when 26 such tests are required for applicants to obtain a class A, B or C 27 license. If he or she chooses to do so, he or she shall set forth her 28 reasons in writing and conduct a public hearing on the matter. [She] He 29 or she shall only establish such a program after holding the public 30 hearing. 31 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 32 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 513 of 33 the laws of 2019 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then 34 section two of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the 35 same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2019 takes effect.