Bill Text: NY S02884 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2884

Introduced

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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02884 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02884-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2884

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee 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.
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