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Assembly Bill A7315

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for drug and alcohol testing of school bus drivers and when circumstances, such as accidents, dictate a more thorough investigation and review

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2017-A7315 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §509-g, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7896
2011-2012: A3271, A8941
2013-2014: A5245
2015-2016: A2833

2017-A7315 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for drug and alcohol testing of school bus drivers during the required biennial medical examination and when circumstances, including but not limited to accidents, dictate a more thorough investigation and review pursuant to regulations issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles.

2017-A7315 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7315
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 21, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TITONE, COOK, GALEF, BENEDETTO, McKEVITT, ORTIZ,
   M. G. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, CURRAN,  FINCH,
   GOODELL, HAWLEY, HOOPER, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, THIELE -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to drug and
   alcohol testing of school bus drivers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 509-g of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2015, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  A  biennial examination pursuant to regulations established by the
 commissioner, by a physician, a  certified  nurse  practitioner  to  the
 extent  authorized  by  law  and  consistent  with  subdivision three of
 section six thousand nine hundred two of the education law, or a  regis-
 tered physician assistant who is not the personal physician, nurse prac-
 titioner  or  physician  assistant  of  the  driver. Included shall be a
 requirement to conduct a vision test AND A  TEST  FOR  THE  PRESENCE  OF
 DRUGS  AND/OR  ALCOHOLIC  CONTENT IN THE DRIVER'S BLOOD AND WHEN CIRCUM-
 STANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACCIDENTS, DICTATE A MORE THOROUGH
 INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW pursuant to regulations issued by  the  commis-
 sioner.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11023-01-7

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