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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2073
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2025
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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:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 504-a to read as follows:
3 § 504-a. Department of motor vehicles reporting of veteran status. 1.
4 For the purposes of this section, "veteran" shall have the same meaning
5 as such term is defined in section thirty-two of the veterans' service
6 law.
7 2. The department shall create and maintain a list of veterans who
8 apply for a veteran driver's license pursuant to section five hundred
9 four of this article. The commissioner shall provide such list to the
10 department of veterans' services to assist the department of veterans'
11 services in outreach efforts regarding available services to veterans
12 and shall update such list as necessary to ensure such list is current.
13 § 2. Subdivision 36 of section 4 of the veterans' services law is
14 amended to read as follows:
15 36. To coordinate outreach efforts that ensure members of the
16 uniformed services and veterans who are residents of this state, and
17 their families, are made aware of services for veterans from any depart-
18 ments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions or agencies of the state
19 or any political subdivision of this state. The department in coordi-
20 nating such outreach efforts shall utilize a list of veterans provided
21 by the department of motor vehicles in accordance with the provisions of
22 section five hundred four-a of the vehicle and traffic law.
23 § 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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