Amd §§3.01 & 3.19, Arts & Cul L; add Art 8-B §§228 - 228-h, Lab L
Requires that an organization applying for grant funding shall provide to arts agencies a certification that it will enter into a labor peace agreement with at least one bona fide labor organization either where such bona fide labor organization is actively representing employees providing services covered by the organization seeking such grant funding or upon notice by a bona fide labor organization that is attempting to represent employees who will provide services to the organization seeking such grant funding; relates to prevailing wage requirements for not-for-profit theaters and payment of their employees on productions funded by the New York state council on the arts or arts agencies of localities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9929
IN SENATE
April 16, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. GONZALEZ -- 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 fees for
non-driver identification cards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 491 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by section 2 of part Q of chapter 58 of the laws of
3 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 3. Waiver of fee. The commissioner [may] shall waive the payment of
5 fees required by subdivision two of this section if the applicant [is]:
6 (a) is an incarcerated individual in an institution or correctional
7 facility under the jurisdiction of a state department or agency[, or];
8 (b) is a victim of a crime and the identification card applied for is
9 a replacement for one that was lost or destroyed as a result of the
10 crime; or
11 (c) has an income which is below two hundred percent of the federal
12 poverty line. Such income shall be proven by providing one of the
13 following:
14 (i) a filed federal or state tax return from the previous year;
15 (ii) a letter from an employer documenting the dates of work of the
16 applicant and the yearly pay from the employer;
17 (iii) a W-2 annual wage statement or a federal tax form 1099 from the
18 previous tax year; or
19 (iv) a wage notice provided pursuant to section one hundred ninety-
20 five of the labor law that documents employment for a period of time
21 within six months prior to the date the applicant certifies that they
22 became eligible.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13776-01-5
