Bill Text: NY S09798 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires navigation systems which utilize GPS technology to provide the legal clearance of bridges or elevated structures along proposed routes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - PRINT NUMBER 9798A [S09798 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09798-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9798

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 30, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring navi-
          gation systems utilizing GPS technology to identify the height of  any
          bridge or overpass along a proposed route

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-f to read as follows:
     3    § 390-f. Global positioning system navigation. No  electronic  map  or
     4  navigation  system  which utilizes global positioning system (GPS) tech-
     5  nology to direct the driver of a motor vehicle to a  specified  destina-
     6  tion  along  a proposed route or routes shall be offered for use or sale
     7  in this state unless such map or navigation system provides  the  actual
     8  height  of  each  bridge or overpass along a proposed route generated in
     9  response to a request or information provided by a user.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.






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