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Assembly Bill A4520

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Designates a health condition or disability that may impede communication on a vehicle registration

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2021-A4520 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3881
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §401, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8691, S7561
2023-2024: S6485, S9506
2025-2026: S3288

2021-A4520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for an applicant to voluntarily indicate that such applicant has a health condition or disability that may impede effective communication with a law enforcement officer when registering a motor vehicle, and that such information shall be provided to a law enforcement officer who makes a traffic stop of such vehicle.

2021-A4520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4520
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to designating
   a health condition or disability that may impede  communication  on  a
   vehicle registration
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
   C. (A) THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  PROVIDE  SPACE  ON  EACH  APPLICATION
 SUBMITTED  PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH B OF THIS SUBDIVISION FOR THE APPLICANT
 TO VOLUNTARILY INDICATE THAT SUCH APPLICANT HAS A  HEALTH  CONDITION  OR
 DISABILITY  THAT  MAY IMPEDE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH A LAW ENFORCE-
 MENT OFFICER. THE DEPARTMENT MAY REQUEST VERIFICATION FROM A PERSON  WHO
 MAKES AN INDICATION UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH IN THE FORM OF:
   (I)  FOR  A  PHYSICAL  HEALTH  CONDITION,  A  WRITTEN STATEMENT FROM A
 LICENSED PHYSICIAN; OR
   (II) FOR A  MENTAL  HEALTH  CONDITION,  A  WRITTEN  STATEMENT  FROM  A
 LICENSED PHYSICIAN OR A LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST.
   (B)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A SYSTEM TO MAKE INFORMATION
 RECEIVED PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH  AVAILABLE  TO
 ALERT A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHO MAKES A TRAFFIC STOP THAT THE OPERA-
 TOR  OF  THE  STOPPED  VEHICLE MAY HAVE A HEALTH CONDITION OR DISABILITY
 THAT MAY IMPEDE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION.
   (C) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY SUBPARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, INFORMA-
 TION SUPPLIED TO THE DEPARTMENT RELATING TO AN APPLICANT'S HEALTH CONDI-
 TION OR DISABILITY IS FOR THE CONFIDENTIAL USE  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  AND
 SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED TO ANY PERSON.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05683-01-1

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