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Assembly Bill A6942

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to issuing non-driver identification cards to certain persons with suspended driving privileges

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2021-A6942 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3809
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1193, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A676, S2756
2025-2026: A1459, S3319

2021-A6942 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Issues non-driver identification cards to certain persons with suspended driving privileges due to a driving while intoxicated arrest.

2021-A6942 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6942
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 14, 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 issuing
   non-driver identification cards  to  certain  persons  with  suspended
   driving privileges
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 7 of paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section
 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new clause  f
 to read as follows:
   F.  WHEN  A COURT SUSPENDS A DRIVER'S LICENSE UNDER THIS SUBPARAGRAPH,
 THE DEPARTMENT SHALL IMMEDIATELY ISSUE  TO  THE  PERSON  WHOSE  DRIVER'S
 LICENSE  WAS  SUSPENDED A NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD WITH A PHOTO OF
 SUCH PERSON. THE NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD SHALL  BE  IN  THE  SAME
 FORM  AS  ANY  OTHER NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD ISSUED UNDER SECTION
 FOUR HUNDRED NINETY OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized 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.
                                                            LBD06530-01-1

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