Assembly Bill A3499

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to using GPS and implementing an emergency communications system on school buses

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A3499 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L; amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A2132
2023-2024: A2316

2019-A3499 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to promulgate rules and regulations to implement GPS and an emergency communications system on school buses.

2019-A3499 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3499
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  education  law,  in
   relation  to  using  GPS  and implementing an emergency communications
   system on school buses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 21-j to read as follows:
   21-J. THE COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
 EDUCATION,  SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF GLOBAL
 POSITIONING SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES AND PROTOCOLS FOR AN EMERGENCY  COMMUNI-
 CATIONS  SYSTEM  ON  SCHOOL  BUSES. SUCH EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
 SHALL UTILIZE THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES TO ASSIST DRIV-
 ERS AND PASSENGERS IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY  OR  A  SITUATION  WHERE
 SUCH SCHOOL BUSES NEED TO BE LOCATED AND ASSISTED.
   §  2.  Section  305  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
   57. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARDS OF EDUCATION  OF
 THE STATE, SHALL ASSIST THE COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES IN PROMULGAT-
 ING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE USE OF GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TECH-
 NOLOGIES  AND PROTOCOLS FOR AN EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ON SCHOOL
 BUSES PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  TWENTY-ONE-J  OF  SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED
 SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05512-01-9

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