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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
   department  of transportation to provide information regarding federal
   safety fitness standards for certain motor carriers

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as
 amended by chapter 12 of the  laws  of  2020,  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 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 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, AND ANY ADDITIONAL PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMA-
 TION  PROVIDED  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH THE SAFETY FITNESS STANDARDS ESTAB-
 LISHED PURSUANT TO PART 385 OF TITLE 49 OF THE  CODE  OF  FEDERAL  REGU-
 LATIONS.
   §  2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 10 of section
 138 of the transportation law, as added by chapter  5  of  the  laws  of
 2020, is amended to read as follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (iii)  In  consultation and cooperation with the commissioner of motor
 vehicles, the commissioner shall report on  safety  issues  reported  to
 such website, and toll-free hotline and related investigations summariz-
 ing  (A)  the total number of safety issue reports received and the type
 of  safety issues reported; (B) the total number of safety issue reports
 received and the type of safety issues reported where  the  commissioner
 or  the  commissioner  of  motor  vehicles,  as applicable, verified the
 information provided; (C) enforcement actions and other responses  taken
 by  the  commissioner or the commissioner of motor vehicles, as applica-
 ble, to safety issue reports received  where  the  commissioner  or  the
 commissioner  of motor vehicles, as applicable, has verified such infor-
 mation; and (D) the length of time between the receipt of  safety  issue
 reports  from  such  website, or hotline and enforcement action or other
 response by the commissioner or the commissioner of motor  vehicles,  as
 applicable.  Such report shall be made publicly available on the depart-
 ment's website in a searchable format, [and] shall be published no  less
 than once annually, AND SHALL COMPARE THE PREVIOUS THREE YEARS OF REPORT
 DATA  TO  THE EXTENT APPLICABLE. Such report may also be included within
 the department's annual report submitted pursuant to  subdivision  thir-
 teen of section fourteen of this chapter.
   §  3. This act shall take effect one year 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.