Relates to establishing the statewide transportation network company drivers misconduct database; requires the department of motor vehicles to establish a database and compile the names of any transportation network company drivers who have had their employment terminated due to misconduct.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
September 9, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Joyner) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
the statewide transportation network company drivers misconduct data-
base
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
section 1699-a to read as follows:
§ 1699-A. STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY DRIVERS MISCONDUCT
DATABASE. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE
DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH A STATEWIDE DATABASE ACCESSIBLE TO TRANSPOR-
TATION NETWORK COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS APPROVED BY THE
DEPARTMENT WHICH SHALL COMPILE THE NAMES OF ANY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK
COMPANY DRIVERS WHO HAVE HAD THEIR EMPLOYMENT TERMINATED DUE TO MISCON-
DUCT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE, ASSAULT AND HARASS-
MENT, AND ANY OTHER DISQUALIFYING CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS IN SECTION
SIXTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE OF THIS ARTICLE.
2. EACH TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY IN THIS STATE SHALL REPORT TO
THE DEPARTMENT, IN A FORM AND MANNER AS DEFINED IN REGULATIONS BY THE
DEPARTMENT, ALL INFORMATION NECESSARY TO COMPILE AND MAINTAIN THE DATA-
BASE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION. EACH TRANSPORTATION NETWORK
COMPANY SHALL REPORT ANY TERMINATION OF A DRIVER WITHIN FIVE BUSINESS
DAYS OF SUCH TERMINATION.
3. TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF PASSENGERS AND THE PUBLIC, A TRANSPORTATION
NETWORK COMPANY SHALL CHECK THE DATABASE PRIOR TO AUTHORIZING A PERSON
TO DRIVE FOR SUCH COMPANY AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, HOWEVER, THE DEPART-
MENT MAY REQUIRE, PURSUANT TO REGULATION, MORE FREQUENT CHECKS.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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