Senate Bill S3025

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing the passenger safety task force

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S3025 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Transportation

2019-S3025 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to establishing the passenger safety task force on safety for passengers transported by stretch limousines.

2019-S3025 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S3025 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3025
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to establish the  passenger  safety  task  force  on  safety  for
   passengers transported by stretch limousines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Passenger safety task force. 1. The passenger  safety  task
 force  (the  "task  force")  is hereby established, and shall consist of
 twenty members including two co-chairs who will share joint responsibil-
 ity for carrying out its charge. The chairs shall be the commissioner of
 the New York state department of motor vehicles, or his or her designee,
 and the commissioner of the New York state department of transportation,
 or his or her designee. The additional eighteen members shall include:
   a. eleven representatives, each of whom shall be an owner  or  commer-
 cial  operator  of  stretch  limousines from each of the eleven New York
 state department of transportation regions;
   b. the superintendent of the New York state  police,  or  his  or  her
 designee;
   c.  two members who shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom is
 a community safety advocate;
   d. two members who shall be appointed by the  temporary  president  of
 the senate, one of whom is a community safety advocate; and
   e.  two members who shall by appointed by the speaker of the assembly,
 one of whom is a community safety advocate.
   2. Members of the task force shall serve without compensation.
   3. The task force shall undertake a review of the actions and measures
 that are needed to ensure safe, adequate, efficient and reliable passen-
 ger transportation by stretch limousine and shall issue a  final  report
 and make recommendations regarding:
   a.  the  promotion of enhanced coordination and uniformity between the
 New York state department of motor  vehicles  and  the  New  York  state

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

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