Bill Text: NY A08948 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the automatic issuance of identification cards for any person whose driver's license or learner's permit is expired, suspended, revoked or surrendered.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-30 - referred to transportation [A08948 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08948-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8948

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 30, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the automat-
          ic issuance of identification cards

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 490 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 158 of the laws of 2021, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    2. Application. (a) Any person to whom a driver's license or learner's
     5  permit  has  not  been  issued  by  the commissioner[, or whose driver's
     6  license or learner's permit is expired, suspended,  revoked  or  surren-
     7  dered,]  may make application to the commissioner for the issuance of an
     8  identification  card.  The  commissioner  shall  ensure  that  space  is
     9  provided  on  the  application  so  that the applicant shall register or
    10  decline registration in the donate life registry for  organ  and  tissue
    11  donations  pursuant  to  section  forty-three  hundred ten of the public
    12  health law and that the following is stated on the application in  clear
    13  and conspicuous type:
    14    "You  must  fill out the following section: Would you like to be added
    15  to the Donate Life Registry? Check box for 'yes'  or  'skip  this  ques-
    16  tion'."
    17    The  commissioner  of  health shall not maintain records of any person
    18  who checks "skip this question". Except where the application is made in
    19  person or electronically, failure to check a box shall  not  impair  the
    20  validity of an application, and failure to check "yes" or checking "skip
    21  this  question" shall not be construed to imply a wish not to donate. In
    22  the case of an applicant under eighteen years  of  age,  checking  "yes"
    23  shall  not constitute consent to make an anatomical gift or registration
    24  in the donate life registry, except as otherwise  provided  pursuant  to
    25  the  provisions  of  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of section forty-
    26  three hundred one of the public  health  law.  Where  an  applicant  has
    27  previously  consented  to  make  an anatomical gift or registered in the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14080-01-4
        A. 8948                             2

     1  donate life registry, checking "skip this question" or failing to  check
     2  a box shall not impair that consent or registration.
     3    (b) The identification card shall display the sex designation of M, F,
     4  or  X  as  certified  by the applicant, with no additional documentation
     5  required. The applicant may amend the sex designation of their identifi-
     6  cation card upon request.
     7    (c) Any person whose driver's license or  learner's permit is expired,
     8  suspended, revoked or surrendered will automatically be issued an  iden-
     9  tification card by the commissioner without the need to make application
    10  pursuant to this section.
    11    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law.