Assembly Bill A8710

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  8710

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2016
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Introduced  by M. of A. LINARES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  non-driver
  identification card application requirements

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

  Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of  section  490  of
the  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 465 of the laws of
2012, is amended to read as follows:
  Any person to whom a driver's license or learner's permit has not been
issued by the commissioner,  or  whose  driver's  license  or  learner's
permit  is expired, suspended, revoked or surrendered, may make applica-
tion to the commissioner for the issuance  of  an  identification  card.
SUCH  IDENTIFICATION  CARD APPLICATION SHALL REQUIRE DOCUMENTED PROOF OF
THE APPLICANT'S IDENTITY INCLUDING A PHOTOGRAPH OF SUCH  APPLICANT,  THE
APPLICANT'S DATE OF BIRTH, AND PROOF OF NEW YORK STATE RESIDENCY. IF THE
APPLICANT  IS  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OLD OR YOUNGER AND IS ACCOMPANIED BY A
CARETAKER WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP,  SUCH  PHOTOGRAPHIC
PROOF  IS  NOT  NECESSARY.  IDENTIFICATION  CARD  APPLICATIONS SHALL NOT
REQUIRE PROOF OF UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP OR A SOCIAL SECURITY  NUMBER.
The  commissioner shall ensure that space is provided on the application
so that the applicant shall register  or  decline  registration  in  the
donate  life registry for organ and tissue donations pursuant to section
forty-three hundred ten of the public health law and that the  following
is stated on the application in clear and conspicuous type:
  S  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
amended by chapter 575 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2.  Application.  Any  person  to whom a driver's license or learner's
permit has not been  issued  by  the  commissioner,  or  whose  driver's
license  or  learner's  permit is expired, suspended, revoked or surren-
dered, may make application to the commissioner for the issuance  of  an
identification card.  SUCH IDENTIFICATION CARD APPLICATION SHALL REQUIRE
DOCUMENTED  PROOF  OF THE APPLICANT'S IDENTITY INCLUDING A PHOTOGRAPH OF

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

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SUCH APPLICANT, THE APPLICANT'S DATE OF BIRTH, AND  PROOF  OF  NEW  YORK
STATE RESIDENCY. IF THE APPLICANT IS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER AND
IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CARETAKER WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP,
SUCH  PHOTOGRAPHIC  PROOF IS NOT NECESSARY. IDENTIFICATION CARD APPLICA-
TIONS SHALL NOT REQUIRE PROOF OF UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP OR  A  SOCIAL
SECURITY NUMBER.
  S 3. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 490
of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 487 of the laws of
2012, is amended to read as follows:
  (i)  The commissioner shall upon submission of an appropriate applica-
tion, upon payment of the prescribed fee, and upon being satisfied  that
the  person described is the applicant and that such applicant meets the
requirements set forth in subdivision two of this section, issue to such
applicant a nontransferable identification  card.    [In  addition,  the
commissioner  also shall require that an applicant for an identification
card or renewal thereof provide his or her social security number.]  The
commissioner  shall  provide  space  so  that an applicant may request a
notation upon such identification card that he or she is  a  veteran  of
the United States armed forces.
  S  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law, provided that the  amendments  to  subdivision  2  of
section  490  of the vehicle and traffic law made by section one of this
act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdivision
pursuant to chapter 465 of the laws of 2012, as amended, when upon  such
date  the  provisions  of  section  two  of  this act shall take effect;
provided, however, that effective immediately, 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.