Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a yellow dot program under which the medical and emergency contact information of the occupants, aged 55 or older, of a motor vehicle is available to emergency personnel in the glove compartment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5584
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 establishing
a yellow dot program for persons fifty-five years of age or older
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 200 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. (a) The commissioner shall establish a yellow dot program for oper-
4 ators and passengers of motor vehicles who are fifty-five years of age
5 or older. Such program shall include the provision of a yellow dot
6 decal, or medical information and emergency contact form, and a durable
7 yellow envelope for such form. The placement of the yellow dot decal on
8 the lower left corner of the rear window of a motor vehicle shall indi-
9 cate to emergency personnel that the medical and emergency contact
10 information for the occupants of such vehicle may be located in a yellow
11 envelope in the vehicle's glove compartment.
12 (b) The commissioner, in cooperation with the commissioner of health
13 and the director of the office for the aging, shall create and make
14 available the yellow dot program materials including the medical and
15 emergency contact information form to be used for the yellow dot program
16 and a consumer education program.
17 (c) The commissioner shall make yellow dot program materials available
18 by mail and at every state and county motor vehicle office.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
20 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
21 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
22 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
23 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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