NY State Senate Bill 2023-S2756

Senate Bill S2756

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for issuing non-driver identification cards to certain persons with suspended driving privileges

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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Jan 03, 2024	referred to transportation
Jan 24, 2023	referred to transportation

2023-S2756 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A676
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1193, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: S3809, A6942

2023-S2756 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Issues non-driver identification cards to certain persons with suspended driving privileges due to a driving while intoxicated arrest.

2023-S2756 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2756

SPONSOR: SKOUFIS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to issuing
non-driver identification cards to certain persons with suspended driv-
ing privileges

 
PURPOSE:

To require the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a non-driver iden-
tification card to an individual who has had their driver's license
suspended by a court.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, when a court
suspends a driver's license, to immediately issue to the person whose
driver's license was suspended a non-driver identification photo card to
such person. The nondriver identification card shall be in the same form
as any other non-driver identification card issue under section 490 of

the vehicle and traffic law.

Section 2: Sets effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill will direct the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide those
individuals with a court ordered suspension of a driver's license with a
nondriver identification photo card. The issuance of a non-driver's
identification card will allow those with a suspended driver's license
to complete necessary daily functions such as travelling, banking, and
shopping.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Senate

2021-2022- S3809, Referred to Transportation

Assembly

2021-2022- A6942, Referred to Transportation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 13
this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
14 on or before such effective date.

2023-S2756 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2756
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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  issuing
   non-driver  identification  cards  to  certain  persons with suspended
   driving privileges

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 7 of paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section
 1193  of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new clause f
 to read as follows:
   F. WHEN A COURT SUSPENDS A DRIVER'S LICENSE UNDER  THIS  SUBPARAGRAPH,
 THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  IMMEDIATELY  ISSUE  TO THE PERSON WHOSE DRIVER'S
 LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED A NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD WITH A  PHOTO  OF
 SUCH  PERSON.  THE  NON-DRIVER  IDENTIFICATION CARD SHALL BE IN THE SAME
 FORM AS ANY OTHER NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD  ISSUED  UNDER  SECTION
 FOUR HUNDRED NINETY OF THIS CHAPTER.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03333-01-3

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