New York Assembly Bill A06544 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6544--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring delivery businesses to factor compliance with certain vehicle and traffic laws when assigning workers to deliver items The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Consider 2 Safety Act". 3 § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 391-x 4 to read as follows: 5 § 391-x. Delivery service companies; assignment of workers to deliver 6 items. 1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall 7 have the following meanings: 8 (a) "Third-party food delivery service" shall have the same meaning as 9 in section three hundred ninety-one-v of this article. 10 (b) "Worker" shall mean a natural person who is hired or retained as 11 an independent contractor by a delivery business to make deliveries in 12 exchange for compensation, when such deliveries involve the operation by 13 such worker of a limited use motorcycle or bicycle with or without elec- 14 tric assist. 15 (c) "Delivery routes" shall mean work involving the same-day delivery 16 or same-day pickup of food and beverage from a food service establish- 17 ment located in the state. 18 (d) "Delivery route assignment algorithm" shall mean the method by 19 which third-party food delivery services assign delivery routes. 20 2. A third-party food delivery service shall ensure that, when assign- 21 ing delivery routes to workers involving the operation by a worker of a 22 bicycle with or without electric assist, such assignments of delivery 23 routes shall consider the worker's history of compliance with the 24 following provisions of law, if data that allows the third-party food EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00028-07-5 
 A. 6544--A 2 1 delivery service to determine compliance with such provisions are 2 collected by the third-party food delivery service: 3 (a) Section eleven hundred twenty of the vehicle and traffic law, 4 related to driving on the right side of a roadway; 5 (b) Section eleven hundred twenty-seven of the vehicle and traffic 6 law, related to driving on a one-way roadway; 7 (c) Section eleven hundred eighty of the vehicle and traffic law, 8 related to compliance with applicable speed limits; 9 (d) Section twelve hundred twenty-five-a of the vehicle and traffic 10 law, related to driving on or across a sidewalk; and 11 (e) Section eleven hundred eleven of the vehicle and traffic law, 12 related to obeying red light traffic signals. 13 3. In any delivery route assignment algorithm that assigns delivery 14 routes to workers involving the operation by a worker of a bicycle with 15 or without electric assist, the worker's compliance with the provisions 16 of the vehicle and traffic laws cited in subdivision two of this section 17 shall be weighted at least as much as the combined weight of all factors 18 pertaining to speed and efficiency. In the event that there are more 19 workers available to make deliveries than pending deliveries that need 20 to be made, a third-party food delivery service shall make a good faith 21 effort to assign deliveries to workers with a higher rate of compliance 22 with the vehicle and traffic laws cited in subdivision two of this 23 section. 24 4. Third-party food delivery services that do not already collect data 25 on a worker's compliance with the vehicle and traffic laws cited in 26 subdivision two of this section in the ordinary course of business shall 27 not be required to begin collecting such data to comply with this 28 section; provided, however, that if data on a worker's compliance with 29 the vehicle and traffic laws cited in subdivision two of this section is 30 collected by the third-party food delivery service or was being 31 collected by the third-party food delivery service as of the effective 32 date of this section, then the delivery business shall be subject to the 33 provisions of subdivisions two and three of this section even if such 34 data was not being factored into any delivery route assignment algo- 35 rithms prior to the effective date of this section. 36 For the purposes of this section, third-party food delivery services 37 shall, with respect to the state of New York and any counties, cities, 38 towns and villages within the state where such services operate, be 39 required to collect and utilize the following data for the purpose of 40 effectuating this section: (a) publicly available data noting a maximum 41 speed limit on a given roadway; and (b) whether a given roadway is 42 designated or signposted for one-way traffic. 43 5. The attorney general may bring a civil action against any delivery 44 business that is in violation of this section to: (a) enjoin the 45 violation; and (b) recover a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars 46 per route assigned per day of non-compliance. 47 6. No data collected pursuant to this section shall be disclosed or 48 otherwise made accessible except: 49 (a) to the worker who is the subject of such data; 50 (b) if necessary to comply with a lawful court order, warrant, or 51 federal law; or 52 (c) to the attorney general for the purpose of determining compliance 53 with this section. 54 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 55 it shall have become a law.