Assembly Bill A545

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides a space on drivers licenses for health care proxy information

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A545 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3514
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง504, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S4048
2011-2012: A4901, S2613
2013-2014: A1065, S1299
2017-2018: A2898
2019-2020: A1442
2021-2022: A3266
2023-2024: A1224

2015-A545 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides space on a driver's license for health care proxy information.

2015-A545 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   545

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, BRONSON, HOOPER, MILLER --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, LUPARDO, McKEVITT, PERRY, THIELE
  -- 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04078-01-5

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