Bill Text: NY A03334 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires department of motor vehicle forms, tests and applications for permits and licenses in a city with a population of one million or more to be available in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A03334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03334-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3334

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          certain motor vehicle forms and applications to be available in Punja-
          bi, Bengali and Hindi

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. Forms to be made available in certain foreign languages.    Except
     4  as  otherwise  prohibited by federal law, rule or regulation the commis-
     5  sioner shall, within a city having a population of one million or  more,
     6  ensure  that  all  written  tests, forms and applications for an initial
     7  learner's permit or driver's license issued pursuant to  the  provisions
     8  of  this  article  are  also available in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi and
     9  provide translation and interpretation services in such languages  to  a
    10  person  applying  for  such learner's permit or driver's license in such
    11  city, upon his or her request.   Nothing contained in  this  subdivision
    12  shall  be  deemed  to  prohibit the commissioner from making such tests,
    13  forms, applications, and translation and interpretation services  avail-
    14  able in other languages.
    15    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    16  law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03201-01-3