STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9489 IN SENATE May 16, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COONEY, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli- copter pilots to have completed certain training before operating a helicopter within the state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 241 of the general business law, as added by chap- 2 ter 233 of the laws of 1928, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 241. Qualifications of operator; federal license; helicopter safety. 4 1. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation 5 making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical progress, that a 6 person engaging within this state in operating aircraft, in any form of 7 avigation for which a license to operate aircraft issued by the United 8 States government would then be required if such avigation were inter- 9 state, should have the qualifications necessary for obtaining and hold- 10 ing such a license, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in 11 operating aircraft within the state, in any such form of avigation, 12 unless [he have] such person has such a license. 13 2. In addition to the requirements of subdivision one of this section, 14 it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in operating a helicopter 15 within the state, in any such form of avigation, unless such person has 16 completed a helicopter safety and risk management training course 17 utilizing a flight simulator training device certified by either the 18 federal aviation administration or the European aviation safety agency. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15606-01-4