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A04520 Summary:
BILL NO | A04520 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S03881 |
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SPONSOR | Hunter |
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Amd §401, V & T L | |
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Provides for an applicant to voluntarily indicate that such applicant has a health condition or disability that may impede effective communication with a law enforcement officer when registering a motor vehicle, and that such information shall be provided to a law enforcement officer who makes a traffic stop of such vehicle. |
A04520 Actions:
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02/04/2021 | referred to transportation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/05/2022 | referred to transportation |
A04520 Committee Votes:
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Go to topA04520 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4520 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to designating a health condition or disability that may impede communication on a vehicle registration The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows: 3 c. (a) The commissioner shall provide space on each application 4 submitted pursuant to paragraph b of this subdivision for the applicant 5 to voluntarily indicate that such applicant has a health condition or 6 disability that may impede effective communication with a law enforce- 7 ment officer. The department may request verification from a person who 8 makes an indication under this paragraph in the form of: 9 (i) for a physical health condition, a written statement from a 10 licensed physician; or 11 (ii) for a mental health condition, a written statement from a 12 licensed physician or a licensed psychologist. 13 (b) The commissioner shall establish a system to make information 14 received pursuant to subparagraph (a) of this paragraph available to 15 alert a law enforcement officer who makes a traffic stop that the opera- 16 tor of the stopped vehicle may have a health condition or disability 17 that may impede effective communication. 18 (c) Except as provided by subparagraph (b) of this paragraph, informa- 19 tion supplied to the department relating to an applicant's health condi- 20 tion or disability is for the confidential use of the department and 21 shall not be disclosed to any person. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 23 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05683-01-1