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                                   2825
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2019
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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  special
   designation for veterans on driver's licenses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a-1) of subdivision 1  of  section  504  of  the
 vehicle  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 429 of the laws of 2014,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (a-1) Every license or renewal thereof issued to an applicant who  was
 a member of the armed forces of the United States and received an honor-
 able  discharge or was released therefrom under honorable conditions, OR
 WAS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OR MILITARY RESERVES  WHO  SERVED  AT
 LEAST  TWENTY  YEARS  shall,  upon  his or her request and submission of
 proof as set forth herein, contain a distinguishing mark, in  such  form
 as  the  commissioner  shall  determine,  indicating that he or she is a
 veteran. Such proof  shall  consist  of  a  certificate  of  release  or
 discharge  from active duty including but not limited to a DD Form 214 ,
 OR IN THE CASE OF A NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER AN NGB22 FORM INDICATING TWEN-
 TY YEARS OF SERVICE, OR IN THE CASE OF A MILITARY RESERVIST  A  DD  FORM
 256  AND  A NOTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIRED PAY LETTER, or other
 proof satisfactory to  the  commissioner.  The  commissioner  shall  not
 require  fees  for  the issuance of such licenses or renewals thereof to
 persons requesting a veteran distinguishing  mark  which  are  different
 from  fees  otherwise  required; provided, however, that notwithstanding
 the provisions of this section, the commissioner shall not require  fees
 for a duplication or amendment of a license prior to its renewal if such
 duplication  or amendment was solely for the purpose of adding a veteran
 distinguishing mark to such license.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08574-03-9

              

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   § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 490 of the vehicle  and
 traffic  law,  as amended by chapter 429 of the laws of 2014, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (b)  The  identification card shall contain a distinguishing number or
 mark and adequate space upon which an anatomical gift, pursuant to arti-
 cle forty-three of the public health law, by the holder may be  recorded
 and  shall  contain  such  other information and shall be issued in such
 form as the commissioner shall determine; provided, however, every iden-
 tification card or renewal thereof issued to a person under the  age  of
 twenty-one  years shall have prominently imprinted thereon the statement
 "UNDER 21  YEARS  OF  AGE"  in  notably  distinctive  print  or  format.
 Provided,  further, however, that every identification card issued to an
 applicant who was a member of the armed forces of the United States  and
 received  an  honorable discharge or was released therefrom under honor-
 able conditions, OR WAS A MEMBER  OF  THE  NATIONAL  GUARD  OR  MILITARY
 RESERVES WHO SERVED AT LEAST TWENTY YEARS shall, upon his or her request
 and  submission  of  proof as set forth herein, contain a distinguishing
 mark, in such form as the commissioner shall determine, indicating  that
 he  or  she  is  a veteran. Such proof shall consist of a certificate of
 release or discharge from active duty including but not limited to a  DD
 Form  214, OR IN THE CASE OF A NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER AN NGB22 FORM INDI-
 CATING TWENTY YEARS OF SERVICE, OR IN THE CASE OF A MILITARY RESERVIST A
 DD FORM 256 AND A NOTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIRED PAY LETTER, or
 other proof satisfactory to the commissioner. The commissioner shall not
 require fees for the issuance of such identification cards  or  renewals
 thereof  to  persons  under  twenty-one years of age which are different
 from the fees required for  the  issuance  of  identification  cards  or
 renewals thereof to persons twenty-one years of age or over, nor fees to
 persons  requesting  a  veteran  distinguishing mark which are different
 from fees that would otherwise  be  required.  Provided,  however,  that
 notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  section four hundred ninety-one of
 this article, the commissioner shall not require any fees for the dupli-
 cation or amendment of an identification card prior to  its  renewal  if
 such  duplication  or  amendment  was solely for the purpose of adding a
 veteran distinguishing mark to such identification card.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.