STATE OF NEW YORK
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10132
IN ASSEMBLY
March 12, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
disclosures in furtherance of the enforcement of state law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of section 201 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as added by chapter 37 of the laws of 2019, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Except as required for the commissioner to issue or renew a driv-
5 er's license or learner's permit that meets federal standards for iden-
6 tification, the commissioner, and any agent or employee of the commis-
7 sioner, shall not disclose or make accessible in any manner records or
8 information that he or she maintains, to any agency that primarily
9 enforces immigration law or to any employee or agent of such agency,
10 unless: (i) the commissioner is presented with a lawful court order or
11 judicial warrant signed by a judge appointed pursuant to article III of
12 the United States constitution; or (ii) the employee or agent of such
13 agency is solely enforcing state law or federal criminal law and not
14 immigration law. Upon receiving a request for such records or informa-
15 tion from an agency that primarily enforces immigration law, the commis-
16 sioner shall, no later than three days after such request, notify the
17 individual about whom such information was requested, informing such
18 individual of the request and the identity of the agency that made such
19 request unless such notification would interfere with a federal criminal
20 investigation.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14883-03-0