Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of motor vehicles and the federal bureau of prisons, to develop a program to provide an identification card to each inmate upon the release of such inmate from custody.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1149
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 7, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. BENJAMIN, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime
Victims, Crime and Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing identifica-
tion cards to inmates upon release from incarceration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 11 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 11. Identification card program. 1. The commissioner, in consulta-
4 tion with the commissioner of motor vehicles and the federal bureau of
5 prisons, shall develop a program to provide an identification card to
6 each inmate upon the release of such inmate from the custody of the
7 department or from the custody of the federal bureau of prisons when
8 such inmate is a resident of New York state. No fee shall be charged to
9 an inmate for the original issuance of such identification card.
10 2. As used in this section, "identification card" shall have the same
11 meaning as defined in section four hundred ninety of the vehicle and
12 traffic law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
14 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
15 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
16 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
17 authorized 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.
LBD04985-01-1
