Bill Text: NY A00572 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits transportation network companies from enacting surge pricing during declared federal, state and local emergencies; subjects violators to a two hundred fifty dollar fine.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-22 - enacting clause stricken [A00572 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00572-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           572

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by   M.   of   A.   BURGOS,   CUNNINGHAM,   GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
          DE LOS SANTOS, BRONSON, EPSTEIN, DAVILA, TAYLOR, SIMON, GIBBS, JENSEN,
          K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
          transportation  network  companies  from enacting surge pricing during
          declared federal, state and local emergencies

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section 1691 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8. "Surge pricing" means the practice of raising  prices  when  demand
     4  for a service is strong and returning prices to normal when demand for a
     5  service returns to normal levels.
     6    §  2. Section 1692 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
     7  a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     8    11. No TNC shall engage in the practice  of  surge  pricing  during  a
     9  declared  federal  emergency,  state  disaster  emergency, as defined in
    10  section twenty of the executive law, or  local  state  of  emergency  or
    11  local  emergency orders, as established under section twenty-four of the
    12  executive law. A violation of this subdivision shall be punishable by  a
    13  civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars for each such occurrence.
    14    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00622-01-3