Assembly Bill A9624

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for automatic issuance of identification cards to incarcerated individuals and assistance with obtaining copies of certain documents

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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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2023-A9624 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9058
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11, Cor L

2023-A9624 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for automatic issuance of identification cards to incarcerated individuals and assistance with obtaining copies of any documents needed to apply for identification cards, including, but not limited to, an incarcerated individual's social security card and birth certificate.

2023-A9624 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9624
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 26, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing  for  auto-
   matic issuance of identification cards to incarcerated individuals and
   assistance with obtaining copies of certain documents
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11 of the correction law, as added by section 1  of
 part Q of chapter 58 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   §  11.  Identification  card program. 1. For purposes of this section,
 "identification card" shall have the same meaning as defined in  section
 four hundred ninety of the vehicle and traffic law.
   2.  The  commissioner,  in consultation with the commissioner of motor
 vehicles, shall develop  a  program  that  would  [allow]  AUTOMATICALLY
 PROVIDE  incarcerated  individuals  without  an  identification card, or
 incarcerated individuals who have not been issued a driver's license  or
 learner's  permit by the commissioner of motor vehicles, or incarcerated
 individuals whose driver's  license  or  learner's  permit  is  expired,
 suspended,  revoked  or  surrendered,  or incarcerated individuals whose
 identification card is expired, [to obtain] WITH an identification  card
 prior  to  the  incarcerated individual's release from an institution or
 correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the department  or  upon
 the  individual's  release  from an institution or correctional facility
 under the jurisdiction of the department at the option of the  incarcer-
 ated individual.
   3.  The  sentence  and  commitment  or certificate of conviction of an
 incarcerated individual shall be deemed  sufficient  to  grant  authori-
 zation  to  the  department  of corrections and community supervision to
 assist an incarcerated individual  in  an  institution  or  correctional
 facility  under  the  jurisdiction  of  such department to apply for and
 obtain an identification card from the department of motor vehicles.
   4. (a) Prior to an incarcerated individual's release from an  institu-
 tion  or correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the department,
 the department shall notify the incarcerated individual, verbally and in
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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