Bill Text: NY S08156 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires helicopter pilots to have completed a helicopter safety and risk management training course utilizing a flight simulator training device certified by either the federal aviation administration or the European aviation safety agency before operating a helicopter within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-13 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08156 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08156-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8156

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli-
          copter pilots to have completed certain training  before  operating  a
          helicopter within the state

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

     1    Section 1. Section 241 of the general business law, as added by  chap-
     2  ter 233 of the laws of 1928, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 241. Qualifications of operator; federal license; helicopter safety.
     4  1. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation
     5  making  it  desirable,  in the interest of aeronautical progress, that a
     6  person engaging within this state in operating aircraft, in any form  of
     7  avigation  for  which a license to operate aircraft issued by the United
     8  States government would then be required if such avigation  were  inter-
     9  state,  should have the qualifications necessary for obtaining and hold-
    10  ing such a license, it shall be unlawful for any  person  to  engage  in
    11  operating  aircraft  within  the  state,  in any such form of avigation,
    12  unless he or she have such a license.
    13    2. In addition to the requirements of subdivision one of this section,
    14  it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in operating a  helicopter
    15  within  the  state,  in any such form of avigation, unless he or she has
    16  completed a  helicopter  safety  and  risk  management  training  course
    17  utilizing  a  flight  simulator  training device certified by either the
    18  federal aviation administration or the European aviation safety agency.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15409-01-0