STATE OF NEW YORK
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1371
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring the
department of transportation to provide information regarding federal
safety fitness standards for certain motor carriers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as
2 amended by chapter 12 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 9. To maintain and annually update its website to provide information
5 with regard to each bus operator or motor carrier under subparagraphs
6 (ii) and (vi) of paragraph a of subdivision two of section one hundred
7 forty of this article requiring department operating authority that
8 includes the bus operator's or motor carrier's name, number of
9 inspections, number of out of service orders, operator identification
10 number, location and region of operation including place of address,
11 percentile to which an operator or motor carrier falls with respect to
12 out of service defects, the number or percentage of out of service
13 defects where pursuant to the commissioner's regulations no inspection
14 certificate shall be issued until the defect is repaired and a re-in-
15 spection is conducted, and the number of serious physical injury or
16 fatal crashes involving a for-hire vehicle requiring operating authority
17 pursuant to this article, and any additional publicly available informa-
18 tion provided in accordance with the safety fitness standards estab-
19 lished pursuant to part 385 of title 49 of the code of federal regu-
20 lations.
21 § 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 10 of section
22 138 of the transportation law, as added by chapter 5 of the laws of
23 2020, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (iii) In consultation and cooperation with the commissioner of motor
2 vehicles, the commissioner shall report on safety issues reported to
3 such website, and toll-free hotline and related investigations summariz-
4 ing (A) the total number of safety issue reports received and the type
5 of safety issues reported; (B) the total number of safety issue reports
6 received and the type of safety issues reported where the commissioner
7 or the commissioner of motor vehicles, as applicable, verified the
8 information provided; (C) enforcement actions and other responses taken
9 by the commissioner or the commissioner of motor vehicles, as applica-
10 ble, to safety issue reports received where the commissioner or the
11 commissioner of motor vehicles, as applicable, has verified such infor-
12 mation; and (D) the length of time between the receipt of safety issue
13 reports from such website, or hotline and enforcement action or other
14 response by the commissioner or the commissioner of motor vehicles, as
15 applicable. Such report shall be made publicly available on the depart-
16 ment's website in a searchable format, [and] shall be published no less
17 than once annually, and shall compare the previous three years of report
18 data to the extent applicable. Such report may also be included within
19 the department's annual report submitted pursuant to subdivision thir-
20 teen of section fourteen of this chapter.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
22 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
23 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
24 effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
25 effective date.
