A5858 • 2025

Requires third-party food delivery services to verify limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Alex Bores
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires third-party food delivery services to verify limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered

Requires third-party food delivery services to verify limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered Requires third-party food delivery services to verify that limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered; requires that a third-party food delivery service shall not sell, share, or allow access to such information.

What This Bill Does

Requires third-party food delivery services to verify limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered Requires third-party food delivery services to verify that limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered; requires that a third-party food delivery service shall not sell, share, or allow access to such information.

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Bill History

2026-05-28 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES
2026-05-28 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 5858D
2026-05-18 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-05-14 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
2026-05-14 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 5858C
2026-05-12 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
2026-05-12 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 5858B
2026-02-18 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
2026-02-18 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 5858A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION
2025-02-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION

Official Summary Text

Requires third-party food delivery services to verify limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered
Requires third-party food delivery services to verify that limited-use motorcycles and motor vehicles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered; requires that a third-party food delivery service shall not sell, share, or allow access to such information.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          5858

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 24, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          third-party  food  delivery  services  to  verify that any limited-use
          motorcycle operated by workers in the course of such delivery  service
          is legally registered

          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  "moped
     2  registration verification act".
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  1  of section 391-v of the general business law is
     4  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     5    (E) "WORKER" MEANS A NATURAL PERSON WHO IS HIRED  OR  RETAINED  AS  AN
     6  INDEPENDENT  CONTRACTOR  BY  A  DELIVERY  BUSINESS TO MAKE DELIVERIES IN
     7  EXCHANGE FOR COMPENSATION, WHEN SUCH DELIVERIES INVOLVE THE OPERATION BY
     8  SUCH PERSON OF A LIMITED-USE MOTORCYCLE OR BICYCLE WITH OR WITHOUT ELEC-
     9  TRIC ASSIST.
    10    § 3. Section 391-v of the general business law is amended by adding  a
    11  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    12    3. (A) A THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE SHALL VERIFY THAT ANY WORK-
    13  ER WHO ELECTS TO OPERATE A LIMITED-USE MOTORCYCLE, AS DEFINED BY SECTION
    14  ONE  HUNDRED  TWENTY-ONE-B OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, IN THE COURSE
    15  OF MAKING DELIVERIES FOR SUCH  THIRD-PARTY  FOOD  DELIVERY  SERVICE  HAS
    16  REGISTERED  SUCH  LIMITED-USE  MOTORCYCLE PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-TWO
    17  HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
    18    (B) A THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE SHALL RECORD EACH SUCH VERIFI-
    19  CATION REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS  SUBDIVISION  AND  RETAIN  SUCH
    20  RECORD  FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR FOLLOWING THE TERMINATION OF SUCH WORKER'S
    21  EMPLOYMENT BY OR ENGAGEMENT WITH SUCH THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09233-02-5