Bill Text: NY S09436 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study to examine and update the requirements of safety inspections conducted to ensure the operational safety of all motor vehicles; requires a report; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-28 - PRINT NUMBER 9436A [S09436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09436-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9436

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT directing the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct  a  study
          of official inspection stations, safety inspections and fees

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

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of motor vehicles shall conduct a study to
     2  examine and update the requirements of safety inspections  conducted  on
     3  motorcycles,  gasoline,  zero emissions and alternative fuel vehicles to
     4  ensure safety and reliability particularly as it relates to new technol-
     5  ogies and to determine whether additional  inspection  items  should  be
     6  included.  Such study shall also examine the sufficiency of the official
     7  inspection industry fees for state mandated motorcycle and vehicle safe-
     8  ty inspections. Such study shall  include  consultation  with  represen-
     9  tatives  of  official  inspection stations, the National Highway Traffic
    10  Safety Administration, and other relevant national vehicle safety organ-
    11  izations.
    12    § 2. Upon completion of this study, but no later than  365  days  next
    13  succeeding  the  date  on  which  this  act shall have become a law, the
    14  commissioner of motor vehicles shall submit a report based on the  find-
    15  ings  of  such  study  to  the  governor, the temporary president of the
    16  senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the  senate,
    17  the minority leader of the assembly, the chair of the senate transporta-
    18  tion  committee,  and the chair of the assembly transportation committee
    19  which shall include, but not be limited to,  the findings of  the  study
    20  as well as recommendations for statutory or regulatory changes.
    21    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13336-01-3