S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5964
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, BRONSON, LUPARDO -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to health care
proxy information 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) of subdivision 1 of section 504 of the vehi-
cle and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 568 and 639 of
the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Every license or renewal thereof shall contain a distinguishing
mark and adequate space upon which an anatomical gift, pursuant to
section forty-three hundred ten of the public health law, by the licen-
see shall be recorded and shall contain such other information and shall
be issued in such form as the commissioner shall determine; provided,
however, every license or renewal thereof issued to a person under the
age of twenty-one years shall have prominently imprinted upon it the
statement "UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE" in notably distinctive print or
format; provided further, however, every license or renewal thereof
issued to a person making an anatomical gift shall have prominently
printed upon the front of such license or renewal thereof the statement
"ORGAN DONOR" in notably distinctive print or format; AND PROVIDED
FURTHER THAT EVERY LICENSE SHALL HAVE IMPRINTED ON THE BACK, "IF YOU
HAVE COMPLETED A HEALTH CARE PROXY FORM, YOU MAY LIST YOUR HEALTH CARE
AGENT HERE:" FOLLOWED BY SPACE FOR THE HEALTH CARE AGENT'S NAME AND
CONTACT INFORMATION. The commissioner shall not require fees for the
issuance of such licenses or renewals thereof to persons under twenty-
one years of age or to persons making an anatomical gift which are
different from the fees required for the issuance of licenses or
renewals thereof to persons twenty-one years of age or over or to
persons not making an anatomical gift.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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