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Assembly Bill A10181

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study of official inspection stations, safety inspections and fees

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2025-A10181 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8745
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8190, S9436

2025-A10181 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study to examine and update the requirements of safety inspections conducted to ensure the operational safety of all motor vehicles; requires a report; makes related provisions.

2025-A10181 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10181
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT directing the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct  a  study
   of official inspection stations, safety inspections and fees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The commissioner of motor vehicles shall conduct a study to
 review and examine the requirements  of  motor  vehicle  and  motorcycle
 safety  inspections conducted pursuant to section 301 of the vehicle and
 traffic law, to ensure the operational safety  of  such  vehicles.  Such
 study  shall  include,  but  shall  not be limited to, an examination of
 whether  additional  inspection  items  should  be   included,   whether
 inspection  items  should be modified, an examination of the maximum fee
 that the commissioner authorizes to be charged by an official inspection
 station, and the sufficiency of such fee in balancing the cost  of  such
 safety inspections to both consumers and official inspection stations.
   §  2. No later than one year after the effective date of this act, the
 commissioner of motor vehicles shall submit a report of such study  with
 the  commissioner's  findings  and  recommendations to the governor, the
 temporary president of the senate, the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
 minority  leader of the senate, the minority leader of the assembly, the
 chair of the senate transportation  committee,  and  the  chair  of  the
 assembly transportation committee.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01108-01-5

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