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Senate Bill S3930

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring helicopter pilots to have completed certain training before operating a helicopter within the state

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2021-S3930 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §241, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8156
2023-2024: S4652

2021-S3930 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires helicopter pilots to have completed a helicopter safety and risk management training course utilizing a flight simulator training device certified by either the federal aviation administration or the European aviation safety agency before operating a helicopter within the state.

2021-S3930 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3930 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3930
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli-
   copter pilots to have completed certain training  before  operating  a
   helicopter within the state

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 241 of the general business law, as added by  chap-
 ter 233 of the laws of 1928, is amended to read as follows:
   § 241. Qualifications of operator; federal license; HELICOPTER SAFETY.
 1. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation
 making  it  desirable,  in the interest of aeronautical progress, that a
 person engaging within this state in operating aircraft, in any form  of
 avigation  for  which a license to operate aircraft issued by the United
 States government would then be required if such avigation  were  inter-
 state,  should have the qualifications necessary for obtaining and hold-
 ing such a license, it shall be unlawful for any  person  to  engage  in
 operating  aircraft  within  the  state,  in any such form of avigation,
 unless he OR SHE have such a license.
   2. IN ADDITION TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
 IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO ENGAGE IN OPERATING A  HELICOPTER
 WITHIN  THE  STATE,  IN ANY SUCH FORM OF AVIGATION, UNLESS HE OR SHE HAS
 COMPLETED A  HELICOPTER  SAFETY  AND  RISK  MANAGEMENT  TRAINING  COURSE
 UTILIZING  A  FLIGHT  SIMULATOR  TRAINING DEVICE CERTIFIED BY EITHER THE
 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OR THE EUROPEAN AVIATION SAFETY AGENCY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07995-01-1

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