NY State Senate Bill S6604B

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 03, 2020	signed chap.12
Jan 30, 2020	delivered to governor
Jan 14, 2020	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.82 substituted for s6604b
Jan 14, 2020	substituted by a9059
Jan 13, 2020	ordered to third reading cal.82 reported and committed to rules
Jan 10, 2020	print number 6604b
Jan 10, 2020	amend and recommit to transportation
Jan 08, 2020	print number 6604a
Jan 08, 2020	amend (t) and recommit to transportation referred to transportation
Jun 18, 2019	referred to rules

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S6604 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9059
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§509-d & 509-m, V & T L; amd §138, Transp L

S6604 - Summary

Provides that every motor carrier shall furnish the department of motor vehicles a list of each altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch limousine" designed to carry 9 or more passengers; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to annually review the bus driver files of each driver employed by a motor vehicle carrier who operates such stretch limousine; makes related provisions.

S6604 - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S6604

SPONSOR: SANDERS
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in
relation to motor carriers of stretch limousines

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To enhance public safety.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section one adds a new subdivision 5-a to section 509-d of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law to require motor carriers to furnish the Department of
Motor Vehicles (DMV) with a list of each altered motor vehicle commonly
referred to as a "stretch limousine" designed to carry 15 or more
passengers in addition to the driver which such carrier operates if any,
and a list of all drivers such motor carrier employs who drive such
stretch limousines and whether such drivers are qualified or disquali-
fied.

Section two amends subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the Vehicle and
Traffic Law to require DMV to review the bus driver files of each driver
of a motor carrier operating stretch limousines, and annually verify
whether each such driver holds a valid driver's license valid for the
operation of a stretch limousine.

Section three adds a new subdivision 8 to section 509-m of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law to require DMV to maintain and annually update its
website to provide information regarding each motor carrier operating
stretch limousines including the carrier's name, location, address and
region of operation; whether the motor carrier is in compliance with
Article 19-A of the Vehicle and Traffic Law (Special Requirements for
Bus Drivers); the number and nature of violations of the motor carrier
resulting in convictions relating to stretch limousines; the number of
miles traveled by stretch limousines operated by the motor carrier with-
in the preceding 12 months; the total number of stretch limousine driv-
ers employed by the motor carrier, the number holding valid licenses
valid for the operation of stretch limousines and the number lacking
such license, the number disqualified, the number of convictions and
accidents involving any such driver employed by the motor carrier during
the preceding 12 months, and the number of convictions and accidents per
ten thousand miles traveled.

 
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):

The provisions of the bill pertain only to the aforementioned sections.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Following the tragic limousine crash in Schoharie, New York, in October
2018 that claimed the lives of 20 people, the worst transportation
disaster in nearly a decade, the need for updated laws governing stretch
limousines is apparent. This bill is aimed at making information on
vehicles and drivers public and easily available to consumers.

This bill will require the Department of Motor Vehicles to annually
review the driver record of persons employed by motor carriers to oper-
ate stretch limousines seating fifteen or more passengers in addition to
the driver, and annually verify whether these persons hold valid driv-
ers' licenses valid to operate stretch limousines. This bill will also
create a public database on the Department of Motor Vehicles' website,
on motor carriers of passengers which operate these stretch limousines
in New York State, in order to provide important information for consum-
er protection (e.g. company record/violations, number of miles travelled
annually, accidents, and driver licensing information). This gives the
consumer a way to check important information before hiring a company,
similar to the New York State Department of Transportation's online
database of information on commercial bus operators.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

Unknown.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 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.

S6604 - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6604

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 18, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to motor carri-
  ers of stretch limousines

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 509-d of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
  (5-A) EVERY MOTOR CARRIER SHALL FURNISH THE DEPARTMENT,  BEGINNING  NO
LATER  THAN  JULY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, A
LIST OF EACH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO  AS  A  "STRETCH
LIMOUSINE"  DESIGNED  TO CARRY FIFTEEN OR MORE PASSENGERS IN ADDITION TO
THE DRIVER THAT SUCH MOTOR CARRIER OPERATES, IF ANY, INCLUDING THE VEHI-
CLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER AND REGISTRATION NUMBER OF EACH  SUCH  ALTERED
MOTOR  VEHICLE, AND A LIST OF ALL DRIVERS SUCH MOTOR CARRIER EMPLOYS WHO
DRIVE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES AND WHETHER SUCH DRIVER  IS  QUALIFIED
OR  HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED TO OPERATE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE PURSUANT
TO THIS ARTICLE.
  § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as
added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
  1. At least once every three years, review the  bus  driver  files  of
each  motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner may review
such bus driver files at his discretion at any other time during regular
business hours.  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE COMMISSIONER  SHALL  REVIEW
AT  LEAST  ANNUALLY  THE  BUS  DRIVER FILES OF EACH DRIVER EMPLOYED BY A
MOTOR CARRIER WHO OPERATES AN ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO
AS A "STRETCH LIMOUSINE" DESIGNED TO CARRY FIFTEEN OR MORE PASSENGERS IN
ADDITION TO THE DRIVER, AND ANNUALLY VERIFY  WHETHER  EACH  SUCH  DRIVER
HOLDS  A  VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE VALID FOR THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED
MOTOR VEHICLE.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05406-03-9

S. 6604                             2

  § 3. Section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8.  MAINTAIN  AND  ANNUALLY  UPDATE ITS WEBSITE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
WITH REGARD TO EACH MOTOR CARRIER THAT OPERATES ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES
COMMONLY  REFERRED  TO AS "STRETCH LIMOUSINES" DESIGNED TO CARRY FIFTEEN
OR MORE PASSENGERS IN ADDITION TO THE DRIVER  THAT  INCLUDES  THE  MOTOR
CARRIER'S  NAME,  LOCATION  AND  REGION  OF OPERATION INCLUDING PLACE OF
ADDRESS, WHETHER SUCH MOTOR CARRIER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH  THIS  ARTICLE
AS  REQUIRED  BY SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINE-J OF THIS ARTICLE IN RELATION
TO THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE NUMBER  AND  NATURE
OF  VIOLATIONS  OF  THIS  ARTICLE RESULTING IN CONVICTIONS OF SUCH MOTOR
CARRIER IN RELATION TO THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE
NUMBER OF MILES TRAVELED BY SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES OPERATED BY SUCH
MOTOR CARRIER IN THE PRECEDING TWELVE MONTHS, AND, WITH RESPECT TO DRIV-
ERS EMPLOYED BY SUCH MOTOR CARRIER OPERATING SUCH  ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHI-
CLES,  THE  TOTAL  NUMBER SO EMPLOYED, THE NUMBER HOLDING VALID LICENSES
WHICH ARE VALID FOR THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES,  THE
NUMBER WHICH LACK LICENSES VALID FOR SUCH OPERATION, THE NUMBER DISQUAL-
IFIED  FROM  OPERATING  SUCH  ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES,  THE  NUMBER  OF
CONVICTIONS AND ACCIDENTS INVOLVING ANY SUCH  DRIVER  EMPLOYED  BY  SUCH
MOTOR  CARRIER  DURING  THE  PRECEDING  TWELVE MONTHS, AND THE NUMBER OF
CONVICTIONS AND ACCIDENTS PER TEN THOUSAND MILES TRAVELED.
  § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
completed on or before such effective date.

Co-Sponsors

S6604A - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9059
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§509-d & 509-m, V & T L; amd §138, Transp L

S6604A - Summary

S6604A - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S6604A

SPONSOR: SANDERS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation law,
in relation to motor carriers of stretch limousines

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To enhance public safety by improving motor carrier safety data trans-
parency.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:


Section one adds a new subdivision 5-a to section 509-d of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law to require motor carriers to furnish the Department of
Motor Vehicles (DMV) with a list of each altered motor vehicle commonly
referred to as a "stretch limousine" designed to carry 10 or more
passengers in addition to the driver which such carrier operates if any,

and a list of all drivers such motor carrier employs who drive such
stretch limousines and whether such drivers are qualified or disquali-
fied.

Section two amends subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the Vehicle and
Traffic Law to require DMV to review the bus driver files of each driver
of a motor carrier operating stretch limousines, and annually verify
whether each such driver holds a valid driver's license valid for the
operation of a stretch limousine.

Section three adds a new subdivision 8 to section 509-m of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law to require DMV to maintain and annually update its
website to provide information regarding each motor carrier operating
stretch limousines including the carrier's name, location, address and
region of operation; whether the motor carrier is in compliance with
Article 19-A of the Vehicle and Traffic Law (Special Requirements for
Bus Drivers); the number and nature of violations of the motor carrier
resulting in convictions relating to stretch limousines; the number of
miles traveled by stretch limousines operated by the motor carrier with-
in the preceding 12 months; the total number of stretch limousine driv-
ers employed by the motor carrier, the number holding valid licenses
valid for the operation of stretch limousines and the number lacking
such license, the number disqualified, the number of convictions and
accidents involving any such driver employed by the motor carrier during
the preceding 12 months, and the number of convictions and accidents per
ten thousand miles traveled. To the extent the information is available,
DMV is required to provide this information on carriers with nine or
more passengers including the operator.

Section four modifies subdivision 9 of section 138 of the Transportation
Law to add the number or percentage of Class A out-of-service defects to
the existing metrics on motor carrier safety that were enacted as part
of the 2019 Adopted Budget.

 
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):

The bill expands the universe of vehicles affected to include vehicles
capable of carrying 10 or more passengers, as well as including vehicles
with nine or more to the extent the data are available, and adds the new
Section Four.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Following the tragic limousine crash in Schoharie, New York, in October
2018 that claimed the lives of 20 people, the worst transportation
disaster in nearly a decade, the need for updated laws governing stretch
limousines is apparent. This bill is aimed at making information on
vehicles and drivers public and easily available to consumers.

This bill will require the Department of Motor Vehicles to annually
review the driver record of persons employed by motor carriers to oper-
ate stretch limousines seating fifteen or more passengers in addition to
the driver, and annually verify whether these persons hold valid driv-
ers' licenses valid to operate stretch limousines.  This bill will also
create a public database on the Department of Motor Vehicles' website,
on motor carriers of passengers which operate these stretch limousines
in New York State, in order to provide important information for consum-
er protection (e.g. company record/violations, number of miles travelled
annually, accidents, and driver licensing information). This gives the
consumer a way to check important information before hiring a company,
similar to the New York State Department of Transportation's online
database of information on commercial bus operators.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019: Previous version (A.5774-A) passed Assembly on June 18.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

Unknown.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 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.

S6604A - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 6604--A

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 18, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. SANDERS, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recom-
  mitted  to  the  Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation law,
  in relation to motor carriers of stretch limousines

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 509-d of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
  (5-A) EVERY MOTOR CARRIER SHALL FURNISH THE DEPARTMENT,  BEGINNING  NO
LATER  THAN JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER,
A LIST OF EACH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS A  "STRETCH
LIMOUSINE", IF ANY, DESIGNED TO CARRY TEN OR MORE PASSENGERS IN ADDITION
TO  THE  DRIVER  THAT  SUCH MOTOR CARRIER OPERATES PURSUANT TO OPERATING
AUTHORITY ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF  TRANSPORTATION,  INCLUDING  THE
VEHICLE  IDENTIFICATION  NUMBER  AND  REGISTRATION  NUMBER  OF EACH SUCH
ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE, AND A LIST OF  ALL  DRIVERS  SUCH  MOTOR  CARRIER
EMPLOYS WHO DRIVE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES AND WHETHER SUCH DRIVER IS
QUALIFIED OR HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED TO OPERATE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE
PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
  § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as
added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  At  least  once  every three years, review the bus driver files of
each motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner may  review
such bus driver files at his discretion at any other time during regular
business  hours.   PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REVIEW
AT LEAST ANNUALLY THE BUS DRIVER FILES OF  EACH  DRIVER  EMPLOYED  BY  A
MOTOR CARRIER WHO OPERATES AN ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO
AS  A  "STRETCH  LIMOUSINE"  DESIGNED TO CARRY TEN OR MORE PASSENGERS IN

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

                                                           LBD05406-05-9

S. 6604--A                          2

ADDITION TO THE DRIVER PURSUANT TO OPERATING  AUTHORITY  ISSUED  BY  THE
COMMISSIONER  OF  TRANSPORTATION,  AND ANNUALLY VERIFY WHETHER EACH SUCH
DRIVER HOLDS A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE VALID FOR THE  OPERATION  OF  SUCH
ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE.
  § 3. Section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8.  MAINTAIN  AND  ANNUALLY  UPDATE ITS WEBSITE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
WITH REGARD TO EACH MOTOR CARRIER THAT OPERATES ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES
COMMONLY  REFERRED  TO  AS "STRETCH LIMOUSINES" DESIGNED TO CARRY TEN OR
MORE PASSENGERS IN ADDITION TO THE DRIVER PURSUANT TO OPERATING AUTHORI-
TY ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION THAT INCLUDES THE  MOTOR
CARRIER'S  NAME,  LOCATION  AND  REGION  OF OPERATION INCLUDING PLACE OF
ADDRESS, WHETHER SUCH MOTOR CARRIER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH  THIS  ARTICLE
AS  REQUIRED  BY SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINE-J OF THIS ARTICLE IN RELATION
TO THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE NUMBER  AND  NATURE
OF  VIOLATIONS  OF  THIS  ARTICLE RESULTING IN CONVICTIONS OF SUCH MOTOR
CARRIER IN RELATION TO THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE
NUMBER OF MILES TRAVELED BY SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES OPERATED BY SUCH
MOTOR CARRIER IN THE PRECEDING TWELVE MONTHS, AND, WITH RESPECT TO DRIV-
ERS EMPLOYED BY SUCH MOTOR CARRIER OPERATING SUCH  ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHI-
CLES,  THE  TOTAL  NUMBER SO EMPLOYED, THE NUMBER HOLDING VALID LICENSES
WHICH ARE VALID FOR THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES,  THE
NUMBER WHICH LACK LICENSES VALID FOR SUCH OPERATION, THE NUMBER DISQUAL-
IFIED  FROM  OPERATING  SUCH  ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES,  THE  NUMBER  OF
CONVICTIONS AND ACCIDENTS INVOLVING ANY SUCH  DRIVER  EMPLOYED  BY  SUCH
MOTOR  CARRIER  DURING  THE  PRECEDING  TWELVE MONTHS, AND THE NUMBER OF
CONVICTIONS AND ACCIDENTS PER TEN THOUSAND MILES TRAVELED.  THE  COMMIS-
SIONER  SHALL  PROVIDE  COMPARABLE  DATA  ON SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES
DESIGNED TO CARRY NINE OR MORE PASSENGERS INCLUDING THE  DRIVER  TO  THE
EXTENT  SUCH  INFORMATION IS MAINTAINED OR MADE AVAILABLE TO THE DEPART-
MENT.
  § 4. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as  added
by  section 16 of part III of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is amended
to read as follows:
  9. To maintain and ANNUALLY update its website to provide  information
with  regard  to  each bus operator OR MOTOR CARRIER under subparagraphs
(ii) and (vi) of paragraph a of subdivision two of section  one  hundred
forty of this [chapter] ARTICLE requiring department operating authority
that  includes  the  bus  operator's  OR MOTOR CARRIER'S name, number of
inspections, number of out of service  orders,  operator  identification
number,  location  and  region  of operation including place of address,
percentile to which [a] AN OPERATOR OR motor carrier falls with  respect
to  out  of  service defects, THE NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF OUT OF SERVICE
DEFECTS WHERE PURSUANT TO THE COMMISSIONER'S REGULATIONS  NO  INSPECTION
CERTIFICATE  SHALL  BE  ISSUED UNTIL THE DEFECT IS REPAIRED AND A RE-IN-
SPECTION IS CONDUCTED, and the number  of  serious  physical  injury  or
fatal crashes involving a for-hire vehicle requiring operating authority
pursuant to this article.
  § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
completed on or before such effective date.

Co-Sponsors

S6604B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9059
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§509-d & 509-m, V & T L; amd §138, Transp L

S6604B (ACTIVE) - Summary

S6604B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S6604B

SPONSOR: SANDERS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation law,
in relation to motor carriers of stretch limousines

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To enhance public safety by improving motor carrier safety data trans-
parency.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section one adds a new subdivision 5-a to section 509-d of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law to require motor carriers to furnish the Department of
Motor Vehicles (DMV) with a list of each altered motor vehicle commonly
referred to as a "stretch limousine" designed to carry nine or more
passengers including the driver which such carrier operates if any, and
a list of all drivers such motor carrier employs who drive such stretch

limousines and whether such drivers are qualified or disqualified.

Section two amends subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the Vehicle and
Traffic Law to require DMV to review the bus driver files of each driver
of a motor carrier operating stretch limousines, and annually verify
whether each such driver holds a valid driver's license valid for the
operation of a stretch limousine.

Section three adds a new subdivision 8 to section 509-m of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law to require DMV to maintain and annually update its
website to provide information regarding each motor carrier operating
stretch limousines including the carrier's name, location, address and
region of operation; whether the motor carrier is in compliance with
Article 19-A of the Vehicle and Traffic Law (Special Requirements for
Bus Drivers); the number and nature of violations of the motor carrier
resulting in convictions relating to stretch limousines; the number of
miles traveled by stretch limousines operated by the motor carrier with-
in the preceding 12 months; the total number of stretch limousine driv-
ers employed by the motor carrier, the number holding valid licenses
valid for the operation of stretch limousines and the number lacking
such license, the number disqualified, the number of convictions and
accidents involving any such driver employed by the motor carrier during
the preceding 12 months, and the number of convictions and accidents per
ten thousand miles traveled.

Section four modifies subdivision 9 of section 138 of the Transportation
Law to add the number or percentage of Class A out-of-service defects to
the existing metrics on motor carrier safety that were enacted as part
of the 2019 Adopted Budget.

 
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):

The bill expands the universe of vehicles affected to include vehicles
capable of carrying nine or more passengers, and adds the new Section
Four.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Following the tragic limousine crash in Schoharie, New York, in October
2018 that claimed the lives of 20 people, the worst transportation
disaster in nearly a decade, the need for updated laws governing stretch
limousines is apparent. This bill is aimed at making information on
vehicles and drivers public and easily available to consumers.

This bill will require the Department of Motor Vehicles to annually
review the driver record of persons employed by motor carriers to oper-
ate stretch limousines seating nine or more passengers including the
driver, and annually verify whether these persons hold valid drivers'
licenses valid to operate stretch limousines. This bill will also create
a public database on the Department of Motor Vehicles' website, on motor
carriers of passengers which operate these stretch limousines in New
York State, in order to provide important information for consumer
protection (e.g. company record/violations, number of miles travelled
annually, accidents, and driver licensing information). This gives the
consumer a way to check important information before hiring a company,
similar to the New York State Department of Transportation's online
database of information on commercial bus operators.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019: Previous version (A.5774-A) passed Assembly on June 18.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

Unknown.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 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.

S6604B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 6604--B

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 18, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. SANDERS, BRESLIN, PARKER -- read twice and ordered
  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
  recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in  accordance  with
  Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation law,
  in relation to motor carriers of stretch limousines

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 509-d of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
  (5-A) EVERY MOTOR CARRIER SHALL FURNISH THE DEPARTMENT,  BEGINNING  NO
LATER  THAN JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER,
A LIST OF EACH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS A  "STRETCH
LIMOUSINE",  IF ANY, DESIGNED TO CARRY NINE OR MORE PASSENGERS INCLUDING
THE DRIVER THAT  SUCH  MOTOR  CARRIER  OPERATES  PURSUANT  TO  OPERATING
AUTHORITY  ISSUED  BY  THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION, INCLUDING THE
VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER  AND  REGISTRATION  NUMBER  OF  EACH  SUCH
ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLE,  AND  A  LIST OF ALL DRIVERS SUCH MOTOR CARRIER
EMPLOYS WHO DRIVE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES AND WHETHER SUCH DRIVER IS
QUALIFIED OR HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED TO OPERATE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE
PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
  § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as
added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
  1. At least once every three years, review the  bus  driver  files  of
each  motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner may review
such bus driver files at his discretion at any other time during regular
business hours.  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE COMMISSIONER  SHALL  REVIEW
AT  LEAST  ANNUALLY  THE  BUS  DRIVER FILES OF EACH DRIVER EMPLOYED BY A

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

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MOTOR CARRIER WHO OPERATES AN ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO
AS A "STRETCH LIMOUSINE" DESIGNED  TO  CARRY  NINE  OR  MORE  PASSENGERS
INCLUDING  THE  DRIVER  PURSUANT  TO  OPERATING  AUTHORITY ISSUED BY THE
COMMISSIONER  OF  TRANSPORTATION,  AND ANNUALLY VERIFY WHETHER EACH SUCH
DRIVER HOLDS A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE VALID FOR THE  OPERATION  OF  SUCH
ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE.
  § 3. Section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8.  MAINTAIN  AND  ANNUALLY  UPDATE ITS WEBSITE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
WITH REGARD TO EACH MOTOR CARRIER THAT OPERATES ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES
COMMONLY  REFERRED  TO AS "STRETCH LIMOUSINES" DESIGNED TO CARRY NINE OR
MORE PASSENGERS INCLUDING THE DRIVER  PURSUANT  TO  OPERATING  AUTHORITY
ISSUED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF TRANSPORTATION THAT INCLUDES THE MOTOR
CARRIER'S NAME, LOCATION AND REGION  OF  OPERATION  INCLUDING  PLACE  OF
ADDRESS,  WHETHER  SUCH MOTOR CARRIER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ARTICLE
AS REQUIRED BY SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINE-J OF THIS ARTICLE  IN  RELATION
TO  THE  OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE NUMBER AND NATURE
OF VIOLATIONS OF THIS ARTICLE RESULTING IN  CONVICTIONS  OF  SUCH  MOTOR
CARRIER IN RELATION TO THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE
NUMBER OF MILES TRAVELED BY SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES OPERATED BY SUCH
MOTOR CARRIER IN THE PRECEDING TWELVE MONTHS, AND, WITH RESPECT TO DRIV-
ERS  EMPLOYED  BY  SUCH MOTOR CARRIER OPERATING SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHI-
CLES, THE TOTAL NUMBER SO EMPLOYED, THE NUMBER  HOLDING  VALID  LICENSES
WHICH  ARE  VALID  FOR THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE
NUMBER WHICH LACK LICENSES VALID FOR SUCH OPERATION, THE NUMBER DISQUAL-
IFIED  FROM  OPERATING  SUCH  ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES,  THE  NUMBER  OF
CONVICTIONS  AND  ACCIDENTS  INVOLVING  ANY SUCH DRIVER EMPLOYED BY SUCH
MOTOR CARRIER DURING THE PRECEDING TWELVE  MONTHS,  AND  THE  NUMBER  OF
CONVICTIONS AND ACCIDENTS PER TEN THOUSAND MILES TRAVELED.
  §  4. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as added
by section 16 of part III of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is  amended
to read as follows:
  9.  To maintain and ANNUALLY update its website to provide information
with regard to each bus operator OR MOTOR  CARRIER  under  subparagraphs
(ii)  and  (vi) of paragraph a of subdivision two of section one hundred
forty of this [chapter] ARTICLE requiring department operating authority
that includes the bus operator's OR  MOTOR  CARRIER'S  name,  number  of
inspections,  number  of  out of service orders, operator identification
number, location and region of operation  including  place  of  address,
percentile  to which [a] AN OPERATOR OR motor carrier falls with respect
to out of service defects, THE NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF  OUT  OF  SERVICE
DEFECTS  WHERE  PURSUANT TO THE COMMISSIONER'S REGULATIONS NO INSPECTION
CERTIFICATE SHALL BE ISSUED UNTIL THE DEFECT IS REPAIRED  AND  A  RE-IN-
SPECTION  IS  CONDUCTED,  and  the  number of serious physical injury or
fatal crashes involving a for-hire vehicle requiring operating authority
pursuant to this article.
  § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
completed on or before such effective date.

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