STATE OF NEW YORK
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6955--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 15, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring safety
reports to potential customers of contract carriers of passengers by
motor vehicle
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 140 of the transportation law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
3 11. No contract carrier of passengers by motor vehicle, as defined by
4 subdivision nine of section two of this chapter, shall enter into a
5 contract to provide services for any customer without first providing
6 that customer with:
7 a. a copy, in writing, of the contract carrier's three most recent
8 federal Safety Measurement System (SMS) scores; provided that, if the
9 contract carrier is required to provide scores for any year or years
10 prior to two thousand fifteen, the contract carrier may provide the
11 score or scores calculated by the Safety Status Measurement System
12 (SafeStat) for that year or years; and
13 b. an explanation of how the scores were calculated and what the score
14 means.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00484-03-5
