What's happening
This bill requires annual review of bus driver files and mandates public display of updated driver credentials and operating information.
Why it matters
Annual review of bus driver files. increases the frequency of oversight compared to the previous three-year cycle, potentially catching issues with driver qualifications or safety records more quickly.
Mandatory public display of driver credentials and operational information. means passengers and the public can more easily verify that both the bus and the driver are properly authorized and inspected, promoting greater transparency and accountability.
Annual re-issuance of credentials. ensures that only currently qualified drivers are operating buses, reducing the risk of expired or outdated qualifications slipping through unnoticed.
Implementation requires new administrative procedures. for both the Department of Transportation and bus operators, likely increasing compliance costs but also aiming to improve passenger safety and confidence in public and contract bus services.
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Who cares
Passenger motor carriers
Covered carriers would face requirements to conspicuously display operating authority, inspection information and driver qualifications at service locations and inside vehicles.
Bus drivers
The bill would require annually reissued credentials designed for public display as proof of driver qualifications.
State transportation and motor vehicle officials
They would establish display requirements, issue driver credentials annually and review each motor carrier’s bus driver files at least annually rather than once every three years.
Passengers on covered carriers
They would gain access to displayed information about carrier operating authority, vehicle inspections and driver qualifications.
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Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 40
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Referred to transportation
- Print number 2188b
- Amend and recommit to transportation
- Print number 2188a
- Amend and recommit to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
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In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2188--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the displaying of a bus driver's credentials while he or she is on duty and the review of his or her files
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 509-dd to read as follows:
§ 509-dd. Passenger motor carrier information. The commissioner of transportation, in consultation with the commissioner, shall establish requirements for motor carriers required to obtain approval to operate as a common or contract carrier of passengers by motor vehicle from the commissioner of transportation for purposes of establishing conspicuous display of valid operating authority, inspection information, and driver qualifications at locations where such persons or entities perform contract or common carrier services with such motor vehicles and within any motor vehicle used to provide such services. For the purposes of this section, "motor carriers" shall not include buses referenced in paragraph (a) or (e) of subdivision one of section five hundred nine-a of this article.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
1. At least once [every three years] annually, review the bus driver files of each motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner may review such bus driver files at his discretion at any other time during regular business hours.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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8. Issue new credentials, designed for public display, which shall serve as proof that a bus driver is qualified under sections five hundred nine-b and five hundred nine-dd of this article. Such credentials shall be re-issued annually.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding the date on which 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.
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