Bill Text: NY S01309 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of the department of transportation in consultation with the department of motor vehicles to develop a program addressing the problem of wrong way drivers on New York interstate highways.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01309 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01309-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1309 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to requiring the develop- ment of a program addressing the problem of wrong way drivers on New York interstate highways The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 67 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 67. Wrong way driver program. 1. Within one year of the effective 4 date of this section, the commissioner shall, in consultation with the 5 New York state department of motor vehicles, develop a program to 6 address the problem of wrong way drivers on New York interstate high- 7 ways. 8 2. Such program shall: 9 a. investigate possible reasons for the problem of wrong way drivers 10 on New York interstate highways; 11 b. assess what other states have done to address this problem; 12 c. set forth possible solutions to the problem; and 13 d. implement measures to reduce the problem of wrong way drivers on 14 New York interstate highways. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05832-01-7