Requires the commissioner of transportation to establish, maintain, monitor and publicize a hotline operated and maintained by the department of motor vehicles through which any person may report safety issues with stretch limousines and to use such reports when determining withdrawing a motor carrier's operating authority or denying applications for new or revised operating authority.
Sen. Pat Fahy
Sponsored bills
Prohibits the sale of infant walkers and restricts the use of such infant walkers in certain settings.
Requires 45 hours of mandatory continuing education in a three year period for registered professional nurses; permits exemptions for illness, military duty and nurses who are not engaged in the practice.
Removes the requirement that party emblems be included in ballot design.
Directs the department of transportation to conduct a study on the feasibility of removing interstate 787 and replacing it with traffic features that will allow easier access to the Hudson river waterfront and provide reasonable traffic operations.
Relates to the residential parking permit system in the city of Albany; makes provisions permanent.
Relates to the operation of bicycles at stop signs and traffic-control signals.
Relates to prohibiting the sale or manufacture of single-use plastic water bottles not comprised of one hundred percent recycled material; establishes penalties for violations; requires food service establishments to provide customers with tap water in reusable beverage containers provided by a customer.
Provides that every motor carrier shall furnish the department of motor vehicles a list of each altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch limousine" designed to carry 10 or more passengers; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to annually review the bus driver files of each driver employed by a motor vehicle carrier who operates such stretch limousine; makes related provisions.
Provides that altered motor vehicles commonly referred to as "stretch limousines" which were altered on or after January 1, 2021, shall have at least two safety belts for the front seat and at least one safety belt for the rear seat for each passenger for which the rear seat of such vehicle was designed.