Assembly Bill A8929

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires rear occupant alert systems in certain vehicles

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A8929 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8734
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L

2023-A8929 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires rear occupant alert systems in vehicles manufactured or assembled after July 1, 2026; excludes motorcycles and commercial motor vehicles.

2023-A8929 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8929
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
   rear occupant alert systems in certain vehicles
 
   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 55 to read as follows:
   55. REAR OCCUPANT ALERT SYSTEMS. (A) IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL  AFTER  JULY
 FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-SIX  FOR  ANY PERSON, FIRM, ASSOCIATION OR
 CORPORATION TO SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE IN THIS STATE A NEW MOTOR  VEHICLE
 WHICH  IS  TO  BE REGISTERED IN THIS STATE AND WHICH WAS MANUFACTURED OR
 ASSEMBLED ON OR AFTER SUCH DATE, AND DESIGNED AS A TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 SEVEN  OR LATER MODEL, UNLESS SUCH VEHICLE IS EQUIPPED WITH A REAR OCCU-
 PANT ALERT SYSTEM. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "REAR  OCCUPANT
 ALERT  SYSTEM"  SHALL  MEAN  TECHNOLOGY  THAT DETECTS THE PRESENCE OF AN
 OCCUPANT SUCH AS A CHILD OR PET IN THE REAR SEAT OF A VEHICLE AFTER  THE
 VEHICLE  HAS  BEEN  TURNED OFF AND WHICH ALERTS THE DRIVER OF SUCH PRES-
 ENCE.
   (B) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND  REGULATIONS  RELATIVE
 TO REAR OCCUPANT ALERT SYSTEMS ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE APPROVAL OF THE
 SAME AS ARE NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL LAW, RULE OR
 REGULATION, RELATING THERETO. THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO MOTOR-
 CYCLES,  A  COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  VEHICLE  AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE
 TRANSPORTATION LAW, OR A COMBINATION OF A COMMERCIAL MOTOR  VEHICLE  AND
 TRAILER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14066-01-4

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