NY State Senate Bill 2023-S6985

Senate Bill S6985

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring bomb or blast resistant garbage receptacles in facilities of common carriers

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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Jan 03, 2024	referred to transportation
May 16, 2023	referred to transportation

2023-S6985 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1437
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Transportation Law
Laws Affected:: Add §113, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S6242
2015-2016: S3273
2017-2018: S4692
2019-2020: S2903
2021-2022: S6009, A7077

2023-S6985 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring bomb or blast resistant garbage receptacles in facilities of common carriers; provides minimum specifications for such receptacles shall be set by the NYS division of homeland security and emergency services.

2023-S6985 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6985

SPONSOR: SANDERS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring bomb or
blast resistant garbage receptacles in facilities of common carriers

 
PURPOSE:

To require bomb resistant garbage receptacles in all transportation
facilities relating to the transportation of passengers or property from
one point to another within the state of New York by any common carrier
performing such service.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

§ 1.Section 113 of the transportation law is added providing that:

1. Every corporation, person or common carrier performing transportation
services regulated under the Transportation Act shall furnish its public
facilities with bomb or blast resistant garbage receptacles.

2. The minimum specifications of the bomb or blast resistant garbage
receptacles shall be determined by the New York State Division of Home-
land Security and Emergency Services.

2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law.

 
EXISTING LAW:

New law

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, our nation and our
state has had to increase measures to protect our citizens against
terrorist attacks. Terrorists have traditionally targeted transit
centers in order to inflict physical harm and massive terror on its
victims. In 2004 a bombing in the Moscow subway killed 41 people and
wounded 120 others, a bombing in the Madrid subway in 2004 killed 191
people and wounded 1,800 others and a bombing in the London subway in
2005 killed 52 people and wounded nearly 700 others.

One way of protecting our citizens from potential bombings in transit
centers is to require the carriers to place bomb or blast resistant
garbage receptacles in transit centers. The use of bomb or blast resist-
ant garbage receptacles will protect against fragments and other materi-
als such as shrapnel, nails and screws commonly used in bombs, secondary
fragments from near the charge including trash contained in receptacles,
blast pressure and fireballs caused by the blast. This bill will mandate
that all common carriers operating in the State of New York place bomb
or blast resistant garbage receptacles in their public facilities to
protect the citizens using those facilities.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

02/04/15 REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
01/06/16 REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become law.

2023-S6985 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6985
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 bomb or
   blast resistant garbage receptacles in facilities of common carriers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
 113 to read as follows:
   § 113. BOMB  RESISTANT  GARBAGE  RECEPTACLES.  1.  EVERY  CORPORATION,
 PERSON  OR  COMMON  CARRIER  PERFORMING  A SERVICE DESIGNATED IN SECTION
 NINETY-FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE, SHALL ONLY FURNISH, WITH RESPECT TO FACILI-
 TIES THERETO, BOMB OR BLAST RESISTANT GARBAGE RECEPTACLES.
   2. THE MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS OF THE BOMB OR BLAST  RESISTANT  GARBAGE
 RECEPTACLES  SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF HOME-
 LAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02977-01-3

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