Provides for automatic enrollment to NY-Alert on the application for a learner's permit, driver's license, non-driver identification card, or renewal thereof; requires a space for an applicant to opt out of such enrollment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5135
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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
for automatic enrollment to NY-Alert on the application for a
learner's permit, driver's license, non-driver identification card, or
renewal thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. NY-Alert enrollment. The commissioner, in consultation with the
4 director of the office of information technology services, shall enroll
5 any person who applies to the commissioner for such permit, license, or
6 card or renewal thereof in the state office of information technology
7 services alert system known as alert.ny.gov, or NY-Alert. Provided,
8 however, that the commissioner shall provide separate space on the
9 application for a learner's permit, driver's license, non-driver iden-
10 tification card, or renewal thereof so that any person who applies to
11 the commissioner for such permit, license, or card or renewal thereof
12 may opt to decline to be enrolled in such alert system.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
17 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09714-01-5
