NY State Senate Bill 2025-S2073

Senate Bill S2073

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the department of motor vehicles compile a list of veterans who apply for a veteran driver's license

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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Delivered to Governor
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Jan 15, 2025	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

2025-S2073 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Add §504-a, V & T L; amd §4, Veterans' Services L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S8784

2025-S2073 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of motor vehicles compile a list of veterans who apply for a veteran driver's license and provide such list to the department of veterans' services to aid in outreach efforts by the department of veterans' services.

2025-S2073 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2073

SPONSOR: SCARCELLA-SPANTON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the veterans' services
law, in relation to requiring the department of motor vehicles share
certain veteran information with the department of veterans' services

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amends the vehicle and traffic law to define veterans in a
way consistent with the veterans' services law and directs the depart-
ment to create and maintain a list of veterans who apply for veteran
driver's license. This list will assist the veterans' services and will
be updated by the department as necessary to ensure the list is current.

Section 2. Amends the veterans' services law to direct the department to
coordinate their outreach efforts by using the veteran's information
provided to them by the department of motor vehicles.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As veterans return from active duty, they have the potential to face
difficulties adjusting to their civilian life. With that in mind, veter-
ans' services require as much information as possible to ensure that
they are reaching out to as many veterans as possible for the resources
for which they are eligible. Being that the Department of Motor Vehicles
stands as a comprehensive database for New York State, it would prove
immensely beneficial for the procedures of veterans' services to have
access to information that indicates that there is a veteran that they
can help.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-2024; Passed the Senate, Held in Assembly Transportation Committee

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Yet to be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This legislation will take effect on the sixtieth day after it becomes
law.

2025-S2073 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2073
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the veterans' services
   law, in relation to requiring the department of motor  vehicles  share
   certain veteran information with the department of veterans' services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 504-a to read as follows:
   §  504-A. DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES REPORTING OF VETERAN STATUS. 1.
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "VETERAN" SHALL HAVE THE SAME  MEANING
 AS  SUCH  TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION THIRTY-TWO OF THE VETERANS' SERVICE
 LAW.
   2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL CREATE AND MAINTAIN A  LIST  OF  VETERANS  WHO
 APPLY  FOR  A  VETERAN DRIVER'S LICENSE PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED
 FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE SUCH  LIST  TO  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OF  VETERANS' SERVICES TO ASSIST THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS'
 SERVICES IN OUTREACH EFFORTS REGARDING AVAILABLE  SERVICES  TO  VETERANS
 AND SHALL UPDATE SUCH LIST AS NECESSARY TO ENSURE SUCH LIST IS CURRENT.
   §  2.  Subdivision  36  of  section 4 of the veterans' services law is
 amended to read as follows:
   36.  To  coordinate  outreach  efforts  that  ensure  members  of  the
 uniformed  services  and  veterans  who are residents of this state, and
 their families, are made aware of services for veterans from any depart-
 ments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions or agencies of the  state
 or  any  political subdivision of this state.  THE DEPARTMENT IN COORDI-
 NATING SUCH OUTREACH EFFORTS SHALL UTILIZE A LIST OF  VETERANS  PROVIDED
 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF
 SECTION FIVE HUNDRED FOUR-A OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05779-01-5

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