Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara has sponsored several additional pieces of limo safety legislation from the State Senate. The three new bills now introduced in the State Assembly are aimed at protecting passengers and pedestrians. The measures include regulations providing for seatbelts and anti-intrusion bars in high occupancy vehicles, requiring for drivers operating high occupancy vehicles to have commercial drivers’ licenses, and to allow for the impounding of high occupancy vehicles that do not have an operating horn system.

(A.8475) requires vehicles with nine or more passengers to operate with seatbelts and provide emergency window exits, (A.8474) requires limousines operators with nine or more passengers to have a commercial driver’s license, and (A.8476) requires the commissioner of the Department of Transportation to impound vehicles with a non-working or defective horn.

"These bills are aimed at preventing tragedies by strengthening regulations and improving standards to ensure the safety of passengers."