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S00590 Summary:
| BILL NO | S00590 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | KENNEDY |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §375, V & T L | |
| Requires vehicles equipped with wheelchair lifts to have safety belts that are used to secure individuals in wheelchairs while being lifted from or into a vehicle. | |
S00590 Actions:
| BILL NO | S00590 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/09/2019 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/08/2020 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
S00590 Committee Votes:
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Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 590 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to wheelchair transfer safety The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 53 to read as follows: 3 53. Any vehicle that is equipped with a wheelchair lift shall also be 4 equipped with a safety belt that shall be used to secure individuals in 5 wheelchairs while they are being lifted from or into such vehicle. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03587-02-9