Bill Text: NY A01210 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows persons in recovery to have a distinguishing mark printed on their driver's license for cases of medical emergencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01210 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01210-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1210 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing persons in recovery to have a distinguishing mark printed on their driver's license for cases of medical emergencies 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 504 of the vehicle and traffic law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (a-2) to read as follows: 3 (a-2) Every license or renewal thereof issued to an applicant who opts 4 to distinguish as a person in recovery shall, upon his or her request 5 and submission of an application for renewal or issuance of such 6 license, contain a distinguishing mark of "R" indicating that he or she 7 is a person in recovery. The commissioner shall not require fees for the 8 issuance of such licenses or renewals thereof to persons requesting an 9 "R" distinguishing mark which are different from fees otherwise 10 required. For the purposes of this section, a "person in recovery" shall 11 mean any person who would like their license to specify for cases of 12 medical emergencies that such person is in some form of drug or alcohol 13 recovery. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04044-01-3
