What's happening
This bill requires the New York DMV to provide conspicuous online information and links about vehicle safety recalls.
Why it matters
Improves public access to recall information. By requiring the DMV to clearly display recall resources online, the bill helps New Yorkers more easily check if their vehicles, children's car seats, or tires are subject to safety recalls, potentially reducing risks from unaddressed defects.
Promotes proactive vehicle safety. Making recall information more visible encourages vehicle owners to take prompt action on safety recalls, which could lead to fewer accidents and injuries caused by unresolved manufacturer defects.
Leverages trusted government platforms. By placing recall links prominently on the DMV homepage, the bill ensures that drivers encounter accurate, up-to-date safety information from a familiar and authoritative source, rather than relying on less reliable channels.
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Who cares
New York State Department of Motor Vehicles
The bill would require DMV to publish recall information and conspicuously display a link to the federal safety issues and recall page on its homepage.
Vehicle owners and drivers
DMV’s website would help them determine whether safety recalls cover their vehicles, related equipment or tires.
Parents and caregivers using child safety seats
The required website information would help them check whether a child safety seat is subject to a safety recall.
Headline styles
Share Car Recall Information
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
History
- Signed chap.338
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.1366
- Substituted for S6243
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.399
- Reported
- Print number 3366a
Show 2 earlier actions
- Amend (t) 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.
Post Recall Info Online
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Roxanne J. Persaud
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3366--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT in relation to requiring the commissioner of motor vehicles to provide information on motor vehicle manufacturer safety recalls
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The commissioner of motor vehicles shall publish on the department of motor vehicles' website information to assist persons in determining whether a safety recall has been issued on motor vehicles and related equipment, child safety seats, or tires, including but not limited to providing and displaying a hyperlink to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's safety issues and recall page, on the homepage of the department of motor vehicles' website in a conspicuous manner.
§ 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04734-02-9
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