Senate Bill S2581A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to health care proxy information on driver's licenses

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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-S2581 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A449
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§490, 502 & 504, rpld §502 sub 1, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7792
2017-2018: S1094, A2178
2019-2020: A1089
2021-2022: A1542
2023-2024: A771

2015-S2581 - Summary

Relates to health care proxy information on driver's licenses.

2015-S2581 - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2581 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2581

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 26, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed 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;  and  to  repeal  certain
  provisions of such law relating thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 490 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 2012, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  2.  Application.  Any  person  to whom a driver's license or learner's
permit has not been  issued  by  the  commissioner,  or  whose  driver's
license  or  learner's  permit is expired, suspended, revoked or surren-
dered, may make application to the commissioner for the issuance  of  an
identification  card.  The  commissioner  shall  ensure  that  space  is
provided on the application so that  the  applicant  shall  register  or
decline  registration  in  the donate life registry for organ and tissue
donations pursuant to section forty-three  hundred  ten  of  the  public
health  law and that the following is stated on the application in clear
and conspicuous type:
  "You must fill out the following section: Would you like to  be  added
to  the  Donate  Life  Registry? Check box for 'yes' or 'skip this ques-
tion'."
  The commissioner of  the  department  of  health  shall  not  maintain
records  of any person who checks "skip this question". Failure to check
a box shall not impair the validity of an application,  and  failure  to
check  "yes"  or checking "skip this question" shall not be construed to
imply a wish not to donate. In the case of an applicant  under  eighteen
years  of  age,  checking  "yes" shall not constitute consent to make an
anatomical gift or registration in the donate life  registry.  Where  an
applicant  has previously consented to make an anatomical gift or regis-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04232-01-5
              

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2015-S2581A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A449
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§490, 502 & 504, rpld §502 sub 1, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7792
2017-2018: S1094, A2178
2019-2020: A1089
2021-2022: A1542
2023-2024: A771

2015-S2581A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to health care proxy information on driver's licenses.

2015-S2581A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2581A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                 2581--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 26, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. VALESKY, LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
  recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in  accordance  with
  Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to health  care
  proxy   information  on  driver's  licenses;  and  to  repeal  certain
  provisions of such law relating thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 490 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 2012, the  third  undesig-
nated  paragraph  as  amended  by  chapter  405  of the laws of 2015, is
amended to read as follows:
  2. Application. Any person to whom a  driver's  license  or  learner's
permit  has  not  been  issued  by  the  commissioner, or whose driver's
license or learner's permit is expired, suspended,  revoked  or  surren-
dered,  may  make application to the commissioner for the issuance of an
identification  card.  The  commissioner  shall  ensure  that  space  is
provided  on  the  application  so  that the applicant shall register or
decline registration in the donate life registry for  organ  and  tissue
donations  pursuant  to  section  forty-three  hundred ten of the public
health law and that the following is stated on the application in  clear
and conspicuous type:
  "You  must  fill out the following section: Would you like to be added
to the Donate Life Registry? Check box for 'yes'  or  'skip  this  ques-
tion'."
  The  commissioner  of  health shall not maintain records of any person
who checks "skip this question". Except where the application is made in
person or electronically, failure to check a box shall  not  impair  the
validity of an application, and failure to check "yes" or checking "skip

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04232-02-6
              

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