STATE OF NEW YORK
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2270
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of section 201 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part YYY of chapter 58
3 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Except as required for the commissioner to issue or renew a driv-
5 er's license or learner's permit that meets federal standards for iden-
6 tification, as necessary for an individual seeking acceptance into a
7 trusted traveler program, or to facilitate vehicle imports and/or
8 exports, the commissioner, and any agent or employee of the commission-
9 er, shall not disclose or make accessible in any manner records or
10 information that [he or she] the commissioner maintains, to any agency
11 that primarily enforces immigration law or to any employee or agent of
12 such agency, unless: (i) the commissioner is presented with a lawful
13 court order or judicial warrant signed by a judge appointed pursuant to
14 article III of the United States constitution; or (ii) the employee or
15 agent of such agency is solely enforcing state law or federal criminal
16 law and not immigration law. Upon receiving a request for such records
17 or information from an agency that primarily enforces immigration law,
18 the commissioner shall, no later than three days after such request,
19 notify the individual about whom such information was requested, inform-
20 ing such individual of the request and the identity of the agency that
21 made such request unless such notification would interfere with a feder-
22 al criminal investigation.
23 § 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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