STATE OF NEW YORK
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6692
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
authorized representatives to apply for identification cards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 158 of
3 the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
4 Any person to whom a driver's license or learner's permit has not been
5 issued by the commissioner, or whose driver's license or learner's
6 permit is expired, suspended, revoked or surrendered, or such person's
7 authorized representative, may make application to the commissioner for
8 the issuance of an identification card. The commissioner shall ensure
9 that space is provided on the application so that the applicant shall
10 register or decline registration in the donate life registry for organ
11 and tissue donations pursuant to section forty-three hundred ten of the
12 public health law and that the following is stated on the application in
13 clear and conspicuous type:
14 § 2. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 490
15 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 487 of the laws of
16 2012, is amended to read as follows:
17 (i) The commissioner shall upon submission of an appropriate applica-
18 tion, upon payment of the prescribed fee, and upon being satisfied that
19 the person described is the applicant and that such applicant meets the
20 requirements set forth in subdivision two of this section, issue to such
21 applicant or such applicant's authorized representative a nontransfera-
22 ble identification card. In addition, the commissioner also shall
23 require that an applicant for an identification card or renewal thereof
24 provide [his or her] their social security number. The commissioner
25 shall provide space so that an applicant may request a notation upon
26 such identification card that [he or she] such applicant is a veteran of
27 the United States armed forces.
28 § 3. 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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