assembly Bill A2316

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Using GPS and implementing an emergency communications system on school buses

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Jan 25, 2023 referred to transportation

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A2316 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L; amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A3499
2021-2022: A2132

A2316 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to promulgate rules and regulations to implement GPS and an emergency communications system on school buses.

A2316 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2316
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SIMON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
   DAVILA, DeSTEFANO, HYNDMAN, PAULIN, REILLY, REYES, SAYEGH,  TAYLOR  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law and the education law, in
   relation to using GPS and  implementing  an  emergency  communications
   system on school buses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 21-k to read as follows:
   21-K.  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE COMMISSIONER OF
 EDUCATION, SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF  GLOBAL
 POSITIONING  SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES AND PROTOCOLS FOR AN EMERGENCY COMMUNI-
 CATIONS SYSTEM ON SCHOOL BUSES.  SUCH  EMERGENCY  COMMUNICATIONS  SYSTEM
 SHALL UTILIZE THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES TO ASSIST DRIV-
 ERS  AND  PASSENGERS  IN  THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY OR A SITUATION WHERE
 SUCH SCHOOL BUSES NEED TO BE LOCATED AND ASSISTED.
   § 2. Section 305 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
   57.  THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARDS OF EDUCATION OF
 THE STATE, SHALL ASSIST THE COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES IN PROMULGAT-
 ING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TECH-
 NOLOGIES AND PROTOCOLS FOR AN EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ON  SCHOOL
 BUSES  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  TWENTY-ONE-K  OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED
 SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01976-01-3