Bill Text: NY A01442 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides space on a driver's license for health care proxy information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01442-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1442
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, BRONSON, M. G. MILLER --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. GLICK, LUPARDO, PERRY, THIELE -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to health  care
          proxy information on driver's licenses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 504 of the  vehi-
     2  cle  and  traffic  law, as separately amended by chapters 568 and 639 of
     3  the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Every license or renewal thereof shall  contain  a  distinguishing
     5  mark  and  adequate  space  upon  which  an anatomical gift, pursuant to
     6  section forty-three hundred ten of the public health law, by the  licen-
     7  see shall be recorded and shall contain such other information and shall
     8  be  issued  in  such form as the commissioner shall determine; provided,
     9  however, every license or renewal thereof issued to a person  under  the
    10  age  of  twenty-one  years  shall have prominently imprinted upon it the
    11  statement "UNDER 21 YEARS  OF  AGE"  in  notably  distinctive  print  or
    12  format;  provided  further,  however,  every  license or renewal thereof
    13  issued to a person making an  anatomical  gift  shall  have  prominently
    14  printed  upon the front of such license or renewal thereof the statement
    15  "ORGAN DONOR" in notably  distinctive  print  or  format;  and  provided
    16  further  that  every  license  shall have imprinted on the back, "If you
    17  have completed a health care proxy form, you may list your  health  care
    18  agent  here:"    followed  by space for the health care agent's name and
    19  contact information. The commissioner shall not  require  fees  for  the
    20  issuance  of  such licenses or renewals thereof to persons under twenty-
    21  one years of age or to persons  making  an  anatomical  gift  which  are
    22  different  from  the  fees  required  for  the  issuance  of licenses or
    23  renewals thereof to persons twenty-one  years  of  age  or  over  or  to
    24  persons not making an anatomical gift.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    26  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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