STATE OF NEW YORK
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1602
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- 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 providing a
waiver from the driving skills test for a driver's license for active
duty and recently discharged military personnel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
3 (i) The commissioner shall promulgate regulations to provide for the
4 waiver of any test required pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph
5 (a) of this subdivision for any person who has demonstrated the driving
6 skills necessary to pass such test through his or her service in the
7 United States army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard, and/or
8 reserves thereof, and/or the army national guard, air national guard,
9 New York guard and/or the New York naval militia, and who is currently
10 in service or was honorably discharged or released under honorable
11 circumstances from such service less than one year prior to his or her
12 request for such a waiver.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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