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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6485
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 24, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 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.
LBD05969-01-3
