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Committee approves bill letting municipalities ask AG to limit navigation apps when evidence shows emergency traffic conditions
Summary
The Assembly committee released A3036, creating a process for municipalities to ask the attorney general to investigate—and, if justified, direct—navigation apps to stop routing traffic onto roadways causing emergency conditions.
The Assembly committee released A3036 as amended after considering testimony from municipal representatives and written submissions from industry stakeholders including Google and the navigation sector.
As amended, the bill—described by the sponsor as the Swift Access for Emergency Response (SAFER) program—allows a municipal governing body to adopt a resolution accompanied by supporting documentation requesting the attorney general to investigate whether turn-by-turn navigation systems have…
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