Provides for drug and alcohol testing of school bus drivers during the required biennial medical examination and when circumstances, including but not limited to accidents, dictate a more thorough investigation and review pursuant to regulations issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 21, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, WEISENBERG, GABRYSZAK, COOK, GALEF, BENE-
DETTO, BARRON, ROBINSON, CASTRO, MAISEL, McKEVITT, ORTIZ, MILLER --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, CURRAN, FINCH, GOODELL,
HAWLEY, HOOPER, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, TENNEY, THIELE -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to drug and
alcohol testing of school bus drivers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 509-g of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 149 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. A biennial examination pursuant to regulations established by the
5 commissioner, by a physician, a certified nurse practitioner to the
6 extent authorized by law and consistent with the written practice agree-
7 ment pursuant to subdivision three of section six thousand nine hundred
8 two of the education law, or a registered physician assistant who is not
9 the personal physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant of the
10 driver. Included shall be a requirement to conduct a vision test and a
11 test for the presence of drugs and/or alcoholic content in the driver's
12 blood and when circumstances, including but not limited to accidents,
13 dictate a more thorough investigation and review pursuant to regulations
14 issued by the commissioner.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth 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.
LBD04381-01-3
