Bill Text: NY A02642 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mandates the use of advanced safety technology in vehicles in the state; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate certain rules and regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - referred to transportation [A02642 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02642-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2642

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 21, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, RAGA, BURDICK, SIMONE, DE LOS SANTOS,
          LUNSFORD,  SIMON  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Trans-
          portation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  mandating
          the  use  of  advanced  safety technology in vehicles in the state and
          requiring the commissioner of motor  vehicles  to  promulgate  certain
          rules and regulations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
     2  adding two new subdivisions 58 and 59 to read as follows:
     3    58.  (a) Every motor vehicle registered in this state and manufactured
     4  or assembled on or after January first, two thousand twenty-seven  shall
     5  be equipped with advanced safety technology.
     6    (b) As used in this subdivision, "advanced safety technology" includes
     7  active  Intelligent  Speed  Assistance (ISA), Advanced Emergency Braking
     8  (AEB), Emergency Lane Keeping Systems  (ELKS),  Blind  Spot  Information
     9  Systems (BSIS), drowsiness and distraction recognition technology, rear-
    10  view  camera sensor systems, and Event Data Recorders (EDR).  BSIS shall
    11  include cyclist and pedestrian detection technology.  EDR devices  shall
    12  provide standardized and easily accessible data. The commissioner, after
    13  a  public hearing, shall promulgate regulations providing specifications
    14  for each type of technology required by this subdivision.
    15    59. The commissioner, after a public hearing, shall  promulgate  rules
    16  and  regulations  for vehicles registered in this state and manufactured
    17  or assembled on or after January first, two thousand twenty-seven,  with
    18  a  weight  of  three  thousand pounds or more, establishing standards of
    19  direct visibility of pedestrians, cyclists  and  other  vulnerable  road
    20  users  from  the driver's position, by reducing to the greatest possible
    21  extent the blind spots in front and to the side of the driver.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02291-01-5