---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to requiring the commissioner of transportation to establish methods of reporting safety issues with limousines"
description: "Requires the commissioner of transportation to establish, maintain, monitor and publicize a hotline operated and maintained by the department of motor vehicles through which any person may report safety issues with stretch limousines and to use such reports when determining withdrawing a motor carrier's operating authority or denying applications for new or revised operating authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "A 8214"
citation: "New York A 8214 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["SANTABARBARA"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-07"
last_action: "2020-02-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8065058-28fb-4a35-be61-00db3b3577f1"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A8214"
source_hash: "9048eaa6b025cd18bf1cd384ab02bf6526eb0d798c4d27cb669702b0ce8255cd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 8214 (2019-2020) — Relates to requiring the commissioner of transportation to establish methods of reporting safety issues with limousines

Requires the commissioner of transportation to establish, maintain, monitor and publicize a hotline operated and maintained by the department of motor vehicles through which any person may report safety issues with stretch limousines and to use such reports when determining withdrawing a motor carrier's operating authority or denying applications for new or revised operating authority.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A8214** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A8214&term=2019&Text=Y)
2. **A8214A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A8214A)
3. **A8214B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A8214B)

## Votes

- Floor Vote - Version: B — **60–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- SANTABARBARA — primary (person)
- ASHBY — cosponsor (person)
- BARRETT — cosponsor (person)
- BUTTENSCHON — cosponsor (person)
- COLTON — cosponsor (person)
- CRESPO — cosponsor (person)
- CRUZ — cosponsor (person)
- D'URSO — cosponsor (person)
- DARLING — cosponsor (person)
- DESTEFANO — cosponsor (person)
- ENGLEBRIGHT — cosponsor (person)
- FAHY — cosponsor (person)
- GALEF — cosponsor (person)
- GRIFFIN — cosponsor (person)
- JACOBSON — cosponsor (person)
- JEAN-PIERRE — cosponsor (person)
- LAVINE — cosponsor (person)
- MCDONALD — cosponsor (person)
- MCMAHON — cosponsor (person)
- MOSLEY — cosponsor (person)
- OTIS — cosponsor (person)
- SOLAGES — cosponsor (person)
- TAGUE — cosponsor (person)
- THIELE — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-07** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-08** PRINT NUMBER 8214A `amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-10** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-10** PRINT NUMBER 8214B `amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-14** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** REPORTED
- **2020-01-14** RULES REPORT CAL.3
- **2020-01-14** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.3
- **2020-01-14** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-01-14** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2020-01-14** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** SUBSTITUTED FOR S6185B
- **2020-01-14** 3RD READING CAL.74
- **2020-01-14** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-01-14** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-01-30** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-03** SIGNED CHAP.5 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8065058-28fb-4a35-be61-00db3b3577f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).