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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 6, 2018
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 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Carroll) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
   the  commissioner of the department of motor vehicles to require exam-
   ination of persons involved in an accident which was caused by a  loss
   of consciousness by such person

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 506 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
 law,  as added by chapter 780 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. The commissioner may require every person holding a license  issued
 pursuant  to  this  article to submit to such an examination as shall be
 determined by him to be appropriate if (A) such person has been involved
 in three accidents while driving a motor vehicle or motorcycle within  a
 period  of  eighteen  months,  if  such  accidents  were  required to be
 reported by section six hundred five of this chapter, OR (B) SUCH PERSON
 EXPERIENCED A LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND  WAS  INVOLVED  IN  AN  ACCIDENT
 WHILE  DRIVING  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  OR  MOTORCYCLE,  IF SUCH ACCIDENT WAS
 REQUIRED TO BE REPORTED BY SECTION SIX HUNDRED FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER  AND
 THE  COMMISSIONER  RECEIVES  EVIDENCE  THAT  SUCH  LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 CAUSED OR CONTRIBUTED TO SUCH ACCIDENT.
   § 2. The New York state department of motor  vehicles  ("department"),
 in consultation with the New York state department of health and the New
 York  state  division  of  state police, shall undertake a review of the
 department's medical review program regarding the  department's  reexam-
 ination  of  drivers  and  the  methodologies  by  which  the department
 receives information that would establish  reasonable  grounds  for  the
 commissioner  of  motor  vehicles  to  believe  that  a person holding a
 license may not be qualified to drive a motor vehicle due to a  chronic,
 ongoing  condition  that may cause loss of consciousness, loss of aware-
 ness or loss of body control.   Such review shall include,  but  not  be
 limited to, an examination of the means by which the department is noti-
 fied  by  a  physician,  a  police officer, or other person of a driving
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 incident, behavior, action or other cause relating to  a  person's  safe
 driving  performance; identification of any impediments that could have,
 or have, inhibited the submission of reports by physicians, police offi-
 cers,  or  other persons that a driver may have a medical condition that
 affects his or her ability to safely operate a motor  vehicle;  and  the
 identification  of  procedures  that  the  department could undertake to
 reduce any such impediments. Such review shall  be  made  and  completed
 within one year of the effective date of the chapter of the laws of 2018
 that  added  this  section,  and shall be submitted to the governor, the
 temporary president of the senate, the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
 chair  of the senate transportation committee, the chair of the assembly
 transportation committee, the chair of the senate health  committee  and
 the chair of the assembly health committee on or before such date.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that
 section one of this act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after  it
 shall have become a law.