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A8214Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS6185

Report Limo Safety Problems

Official title

“Relates to requiring the commissioner of transportation to establish methods of reporting safety issues with limousines”

Sponsor Angelo SantabarbaraAD-111+23 co-sponsorsAffects Transportation
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
4/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill requires New York to create a toll-free hotline and website for reporting safety issues with stretch limousines.

Why it matters

  1. Empowers passengers and the public. to directly report a wide range of safety concerns—such as vehicle condition, missing or defective safety equipment, and regulatory violations—about stretch limousines, potentially leading to swifter identification of dangerous vehicles or operators.

  2. Requires stretch limousines to display prominent notices. inside the vehicle with the hotline and website details, ensuring that all passengers are aware of their right and ability to report safety issues, which could increase accountability among operators.

  3. Mandates annual public reporting. on the number and types of complaints received, investigations performed, verification of issues, enforcement actions taken, and the time taken to respond—enhancing transparency and allowing the public to track government responsiveness and trends in limousine safety.

  4. Gives both the Department of Transportation and Department of Motor Vehicles new investigative authority. based on hotline/website reports, enabling them to prioritize enforcement efforts using real-world data, which could lead to more targeted and effective oversight of the stretch limousine industry.

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Who cares

  • Stretch limousine passengers

    The bill would provide a toll-free safety reporting hotline and require conspicuous notices displaying the hotline number and Safe Limo New York website in covered vehicles registered in New York.

  • Stretch limousine operators

    Operators of covered vehicles registered in New York would face notice-posting requirements, and verified safety complaints could inform enforcement priorities and actions.

  • New York State Department of Transportation

    The department would coordinate the hotline with DMV and publish searchable reports at least annually detailing complaints, verified issues, responses and response times.

  • New York State Department of Motor Vehicles

    DMV would operate and maintain the hotline, approve the notices’ form and placement, and have authority to investigate reports involving specified vehicle and traffic laws.

Headline styles

Report Limo Safety Problems

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Angelo Santabarbara

Assembly Member · Assembly District 111

Chair, People with Disabilities

History

  1. Signed chap.5
  2. Delivered to governor
  3. Returned to assembly
  4. Passed senateVote 60–0
  5. 3rd reading cal.74
  6. Substituted for S6185B
  7. Referred to rules
  8. Delivered to senate
  9. Passed assembly
  10. Ordered to third reading rules cal.3
  11. Rules report cal.3
  12. Reported
Show 8 earlier actions
  1. Reported referred to rules
  2. Reported referred to ways and means
  3. Print number 8214b
  4. Amend and recommit to transportation
  5. Print number 8214a
  6. Amend (t) and recommit to transportation
  7. Referred to transportation
  8. 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.

S6185Senate

Report Limo Safety Problems

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Rachel May

Impact 4 · Low0% to pass

Full text

2 pagesUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗

STATE OF NEW YORK

8214--B

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

June 7, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA, ASHBY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 transportation law, in relation to requiring the commissioner of transportation to establish methods of reporting safety issues with stretch limousines

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 138 of the transportation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:

10. (a) In consultation and cooperation with the commissioner of motor vehicles, to establish, maintain, monitor, and publicize a toll-free hotline operated and maintained by the department of motor vehicles through which any person may report safety issues with altered motor vehicles commonly referred to as "stretch limousines" having a seating capacity of nine or more passengers, including the driver, used in the business of transporting passengers for compensation. Upon the establishment of such toll-free hotline, the commissioner and the commissioner of motor vehicles shall require every such altered motor vehicle registered in this state to have posted therein a notice providing the department of transportation's safe limo New York website address and toll-free hotline number, in a form and manner approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles. Such notice shall be posted in a manner legible and conspicuous to passengers in all seating positions of such altered motor vehicles. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "safety issues" shall include, but not be limited to, the operational condition and functioning of such altered motor vehicle, motor vehicle safety equipment availability and condition, altered motor vehicle

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD11846-06-0

A. 8214--B 2

inspection and registration, issues related to certificates or permits issued to such altered motor vehicles for the transportation of passengers by the United States department of transportation or the commissioner, and alleged violations of article nineteen, article nineteen-A, or title VII of the vehicle and traffic law by a person during his or her operation of such an altered motor vehicle.

(b) (i) The commissioner may investigate reports received through such website, and toll-free hotline related to the provisions of this article or article seven of this chapter and, where the commissioner has verified such information, may consider such verified information in the enforcement of such articles, and in setting priorities for enforcement activities.

(ii) The commissioner of motor vehicles may investigate reports received by such website, and toll-free hotline related to the provisions of article five, section three hundred eighty-three, article fourteen, article nineteen, article nineteen-A, and title VII of the vehicle and traffic law and, where substantiated by such commissioner, may consider such substantiated information in the enforcement of articles five, fourteen, and nineteen-A and section three hundred eightythree of such law, and in setting priorities for enforcement activities.

(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 summarizing (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 applicable, to safety issue reports received where the commissioner or the commissioner of motor vehicles, as applicable, has verified such information; 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 department's website in a searchable format, and shall be published no less than once annually. Such report may also be included within the department's annual report submitted pursuant to subdivision thirteen of section fourteen of this chapter.

§ 2. 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.

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