Bill Text: NY S05677 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits sex offenders from operating automobiles participating in mobile application based transportation networks or being employed by such transportation networks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S05677 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05677-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5677

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the  vehicle  and  traffic
          law,  in  relation to prohibiting sex offenders from operating automo-
          biles  participating  in  mobile  application   based   transportation
          networks or being employed by such transportation networks

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

     1    Section 1. Section 181 of the general municipal  law,  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  No person required to maintain registration under article six-C of
     4  the correction law shall operate an automobile for or be employed by any
     5  mobile application based  transportation  network.  Such  transportation
     6  networks  shall be required to perform a background check on all employ-
     7  ees that shall include the state sex offender registry.
     8    § 2. Section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law, is amended by  adding
     9  a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
    10    3-a.  Restrictions  on  license  to drive a motor vehicle for a mobile
    11  application based transportation network. No person required to maintain
    12  registration under article six-C of the correction law shall be  permit-
    13  ted  to  maintain a license for purposes of operating any automobile for
    14  or be employed by any mobile application based  transportation  network.
    15  Such  transportation  networks shall be required to perform a background
    16  check on all employees that shall include the state sex offender  regis-
    17  try.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


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