File #: Int 1192-2023    Version: * Name: Authorizing physician assistants and nurse practitioners to conduct medical exams of taxi driver license applicants.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 9/28/2023
Enactment date: 12/3/2023 Law number: 2023/165
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to authorizing physician assistants and nurse practitioners to conduct medical exams of taxi driver license applicants
Sponsors: Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Mercedes Narcisse, Kevin C. Riley, Carlina Rivera , Farah N. Louis, Linda Lee, Marjorie Velázquez
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would allow applicants for a taxi driver license to receive medical clearance from a physician assistant or nurse practitioner.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1192, 2. Int. No. 1192, 3. September 28, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-28-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 28, 2023, 6. Committee Report 10/13/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 10/13/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 10/13/23, 9. Committee Report 11/2/23, 10. Hearing Transcript 11/2/23, 11. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 12. November 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 13. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-2-23, 14. Int. No. 1192 (FINAL), 15. Fiscal Impact Statement, 16. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 17. Local Law 165
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12/3/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
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11/2/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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10/13/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/13/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1192

 

By Council Members Brooks-Powers, Narcisse, Riley, Rivera, Louis, Lee and Velázquez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to authorizing physician assistants and nurse practitioners to conduct medical exams of taxi driver license applicants

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision d of section 19-505 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 115 for the year 1993, and amended by local law number 5 for the year 2009, is amended to read as follows:

d. Each applicant for a driver’s license under the provisions of this chapter, other than a commuter van driver’s license, shall be examined as to [his or her] such applicant’s physical condition by a duly licensed physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, designated by the commission; each such applicant shall also be examined by the commission as to [his or her] such applicant’s knowledge of the city, as well as city and state laws governing the idling of engines, and if the result of any of these examinations is unsatisfactory, [he or she] such applicant shall be refused a license.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

SRB

LS #13301

9/15/2023