A 5944: Requires delivery safety training for those who make deliveries for online ordering and delivery platforms within a city with a population of one million or more before such persons can make a delivery.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5944 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. R. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring delivery safety training for those who make deliveries for online ordering and deliv- ery platforms The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-m to 2 read as follows: 3 § 202-m. Delivery safety training. 1. As used in this section, the 4 term "online ordering and delivery platform" means any entity which 5 facilitates the ordering of goods, from no fewer than five separately 6 owned establishments, through the use of a website, mobile application, 7 or other internet service and where such goods are delivered by a person 8 connected to the order through a system or service offered or utilized 9 by such platform. 10 2. On or after the one hundred eightieth day after the effective date 11 of this section, all online ordering and delivery platforms shall 12 provide delivery safety training before a person is allowed to make a 13 delivery for such platform within a city with a population of one 14 million or more via a website, mobile application, or other effective 15 training. 16 3. The curriculum for the delivery safety training shall be estab- 17 lished by the delivery safety training curriculum task force which shall 18 consist of nine members appointed by the governor, assembly and senate, 19 as follows: one representing the New York city department of transporta- 20 tion; one representing the New York state department of transportation; 21 one representing the department of motor vehicles; two representing 22 persons making deliveries for online ordering and delivery platforms; 23 two representing online ordering and delivery platforms; and two repres- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07661-01-5 
 A. 5944 2 1 enting street safety advocates. Such curriculum shall include, but not 2 be limited to, the following topics: 3 (a) vehicle and traffic laws; 4 (b) safe driving behaviors; 5 (c) defensive driving skills; and 6 (d) common risks for new delivery drivers. 7 4. Such delivery safety training shall: 8 (a) be at least three hours in length; 9 (b) be provided in plain English and each of the ten most common non- 10 English languages spoken by individuals with limited-English proficiency 11 in the state of New York, based on United States census data; and 12 (c) be provided at no cost by the online ordering and delivery plat- 13 form. 14 5. Persons who complete delivery safety training shall be paid fifteen 15 dollars per hour or the minimum wage, whichever is greater, for time 16 spent completing such training. Such payment shall be administered by 17 the comptroller using funds collected from online ordering and delivery 18 platforms operating within the state. 19 6. On or after the one hundred eightieth day after the effective date 20 of this section, an online ordering and delivery platform shall not 21 allow a person to make a delivery within a city with a population of one 22 million or more before such person has completed the delivery safety 23 training required under this section. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 25 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 26 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 27 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 28 completed on or before such effective date.