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- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.263
- Referred to local government
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
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- Ordered to third reading cal.1789
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to local government
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Prohibits sex offenders from operating automobiles participating in mobile application based transportation networks or being employed by such transportation networks
In Assembly Committee · Correction · Sponsor Marcos Crespo
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BILL NUMBER:S5725
Title of bill
An act to amend the general municipal law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting sex offenders from operating automobiles participating in mobile application based transportation networks or being employed by such transportation networks
Purpose or general idea of bill
Prohibits sex offenders from operating automobiles participating in mobile application based transportation networks or being employed by such transportation networks.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. Section 181 of the general municipal law, is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
(3) No person required to maintain registration under article six-C of the correction law shall operate an automobile for or be employed by any mobile application based transportation network. Such transportation networks shall be required to perform a background check on all employees that shall include the state sex offender registry.
Section 2. Section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law, is amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3-a. Restrictions on license to drive a motor vehicle for a mobile application based transportation network. No person required to maintain registration under article six-C of the correction law shall be permitted to maintain a license for purposes of operation any automobile for or be employed by any mobile application based transportation network. Such transportation networks shall be required to perform a background check on all employees that shall include the state sex offender registry.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Justification
Recent and nationwide accountings of criminal behavior by drivers working in association with mobile applications transportation networks have raised concerns as to the safety of consumers using such services.
Sexual assaults and violent acts perpetrated against customers by drivers working as "independent contractors" with companies like Ubber, Lyft and Sidecar in communities across the nation have prompted scrutiny into the employee screening processes used by these mobile application based transportation networks.
Major news organizations have conducted investigative reporting which has uncovered faulty background checks by Ubber and the like. This in turn has allowed individuals with violent criminal histories to work
as drivers in these transportation systems. This set of events and actions has placed countless consumers in harm's way.
This legislation goes beyond the faulty background screening processes used by mobile application transportation networks by simply prohibiting one set of individual who have exhibited dangerous criminal behavior from any participation in the workforce of these transportation systems.
By adding level 1, level 2 and level 3 sex offenders to those prohibited from applying and working as "independent contractors for Ubber, Lyft and the like, this legislation will effectively reduce the threat to consumers that they will become crime victims.
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