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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
   disclosures in furtherance of the enforcement of state law
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of section 201 of the vehi-
 cle and traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part YYY of  chapter  58
 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Except as required for the commissioner to issue or renew a driv-
 er's license or learner's permit that meets federal standards for  iden-
 tification,  as  necessary  for  an individual seeking acceptance into a
 trusted traveler  program,  or  to  facilitate  vehicle  imports  and/or
 exports,  the commissioner, and any agent or employee of the commission-
 er, shall not disclose or make  accessible  in  any  manner  records  or
 information  that  [he or she] THE COMMISSIONER maintains, to any agency
 that primarily enforces immigration law or to any employee or  agent  of
 such  agency,  unless:  (I)  the commissioner is presented with a lawful
 court order or judicial warrant signed by a judge appointed pursuant  to
 article  III  of the United States constitution; OR (II) THE EMPLOYEE OR
 AGENT OF SUCH AGENCY IS SOLELY ENFORCING STATE LAW OR  FEDERAL  CRIMINAL
 LAW  AND NOT IMMIGRATION LAW.  Upon receiving a request for such records
 or information from an agency that primarily enforces  immigration  law,
 the  commissioner  shall,  no  later than three days after such request,
 notify the individual about whom such information was requested, inform-
 ing such individual of the request and the identity of the  agency  that
 made such request UNLESS SUCH NOTIFICATION WOULD INTERFERE WITH A FEDER-
 AL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04607-01-5