Requires bike shares to equip all bicycles with electric assist with speed and location tracking technology and to revoke customer account if such customers ride over the speed limit or against the flow of traffic.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7600
SPONSOR: Epstein TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain
equipment and reporting requirements for certain businesses that utilize
bicycles with electric assist
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends the vehicle and traffic law by adding a new section
1244 requiring businesses that rent bikes with electric assist to equip
their fleet with speed and location tracking technology and to biannual-
ly report revocations of customer accounts for traveling over the speed
limit, against the flow of traffic, or for other violations.
Section 2 provides the effective date
JUSTIFICATION:
Businesses that rent e-bikes to customers have proliferated. Many more
e-bikes, which can travel at a much faster rate of speed than human-pow-
ered bicycles, are now prevalent across the state and especially in New
York City. Business that rent e-bikes have a responsibility to ensure
their customers are using them in accordance with any state and local
law. Already, it is common for e--bike rental businesses to equip their
fleets with speed and location tracking technology. This bill would make
that practice a statutory requirement along with ensuring these busi-
nesses establish a protocol for revoking customer accounts that violate
state and local laws.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
none
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7600
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain
equipment and reporting requirements for certain businesses that
utilize bicycles with electric assist
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1244 to read as follows:
3 § 1244. Speed and location tracking for bicycles with electric assist.
4 1. Any business that utilizes bicycles with electric assist as defined
5 in section one hundred two-c of this chapter and rents such bicycles
6 with electric assist to customers shall equip such bicycles with elec-
7 tric assist with speed and location tracking technology. Such businesses
8 shall revoke the customer account of any such customer if such customer
9 is found to have traveled over the speed limit or against the flow of
10 traffic.
11 2. On a biannual basis, such businesses shall report to the department
12 any revocations of customer accounts pursuant to subdivision one of this
13 section. Such report shall include, but shall not be limited to:
14 (a) the reasons for such revocations; and
15 (b) the area in which each customer committed such offense.
16 3. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out
17 the provisions of this chapter.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04345-01-5
