Bill Text: NY A08582 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires navigation systems which utilize GPS technology to provide the legal clearance of bridges or elevated structures along proposed routes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-06-07 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08582 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8582

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 12, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring navi-
          gation systems utilizing GPS technology to identify the height of  any
          bridge or overpass along a proposed route

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-f to read as follows:
     3    § 390-f. Global positioning system navigation. No  electronic  map  or
     4  navigation  system  which utilizes global positioning system (GPS) tech-
     5  nology to direct the driver of a motor vehicle to a  specified  destina-
     6  tion  along  a proposed route or routes shall be offered for use or sale
     7  in this state unless such map or navigation  system  provides  the  user
     8  with  the  actual  height of each bridge or overpass which the user will
     9  pass under along a proposed route generated in response to a request  or
    10  information provided by such user.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13929-01-3