Assembly Bill A8320

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Creates a distinctive parking placard to allow midwives to park closer to patients' homes in order to provide swift care

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A8320 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7527
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1203, add §404-ff, V & T L

2025-A8320 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a distinctive parking placard to allow midwives to park closer to patients' homes in order to provide quicker access and swift care.

2025-A8320 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8320
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  creating  a
   distinctive  parking  placard  to  allow  midwives  to  park closer to
   patients' homes in order to provide swift care

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 1203 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E) WHERE PARKING IS PROHIBITED BY SIGNS, BUT NOT  WHERE  STOPPING  OR
 STANDING  IS  PROHIBITED, A DULY LICENSED MIDWIFE, AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE
 ONE HUNDRED FORTY OF THE EDUCATION LAW, MAY PARK  THEIR  MOTOR  VEHICLE,
 IDENTIFIED  BY  A SPECIAL PLACARD ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER PURSUANT TO
 SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-FF OF THIS CHAPTER, FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED
 ONE HOUR WHILE ATTENDING TO A PATIENT IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY.
   § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 404-ff to read as follows:
   §  404-FF.  DISTINCTIVE  PLACARD  FOR  LICENSED  MIDWIVES. 1. ANY DULY
 LICENSED MIDWIFE, AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FORTY OF THE  EDUCA-
 TION LAW, IN THIS STATE SHALL, UPON APPLICATION, BE ISSUED A DISTINCTIVE
 PLACARD  BEARING  A  UNIQUE SERIAL NUMBER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL AS THE
 COMMISSIONER SHALL PRESCRIBE. APPLICATION  FOR  SUCH  PLACARD  SHALL  BE
 FILED WITH THE COMMISSIONER AND SHALL BE VERIFIED ANNUALLY BY THE APPLI-
 CANT.
   2.  THE  DISTINCTIVE  PLACARD  AUTHORIZED  IN  SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY  TO  THE  COMMISSIONER,
 THAT THE APPLICANT IS PRESENTLY A DULY LICENSED MIDWIFE.
   3.  A  DISTINCTIVE  PLACARD  ISSUED  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE
 ISSUED UPON PAYMENT  OF  AN  INITIAL,  ONE-TIME  SERVICE  CHARGE  TO  BE
 PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11729-01-5

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