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Senate Bill S6900

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires the department of motor vehicles to automatically issue a non-driver identification card to persons aged sixty-two or older who have their driver's license revoked

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2015-S6900 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง490, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S1687

2015-S6900 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of motor vehicles to automatically issue a non-driver identification card to persons aged sixty-two or older who have their driver's license revoked.

2015-S6900 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6900 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6900

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 4, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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  non-driver
  identification cards for persons aged sixty-two years of age or older

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
  2-A.  PERSONS  AGED SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. WHERE THE DEPART-
MENT REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSE OF A PERSON AGED  SIXTY-TWO  YEARS  OF
AGE  OR  OLDER,  THE  DEPARTMENT SHALL AUTOMATICALLY ISSUE SUCH PERSON A
NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD.
  S 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3  of  section
490  of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 575 of the laws
of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  (iii) Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contra-
ry, a person who is sixty-two years of age or older and who is a recipi-
ent of supplemental security income benefits who has not been  issued  a
driver's  license,  or whose driver's license is expired, or who surren-
dered his or her driver's license, OR WHOSE DRIVER'S  LICENSE  HAS  BEEN
REVOKED BY THE DEPARTMENT shall be issued an identification card without
the payment of any fee, upon submitting the appropriate application.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
necessary for the implementation of this act on its  effective  date  is
authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and completed on or before such
effective date.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13835-01-6

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