Bill Text: NY A03828 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the length of time that a person on a visa can hold a New York state driver's license or learner's permit; provides that driver's license or learner's permit shall expire upon the expiration of a visa or upon the date the driver's license or learner's permit would normally expire whichever date first occurs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A03828 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03828-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3828

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  length
          of time that a person on a visa can hold a driver's license, learner's
          permit or non-driver identification card

          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 503 of the vehicle and traffic law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Whenever a driver's license or learner's permit issued pursuant to
     4  this article, or a privilege of operating a motor vehicle or of  obtain-
     5  ing  such  a  license or permit has been issued to an alien who has been
     6  issued a visa, such driver's license or learner's  permit  shall  expire
     7  upon the expiration of the visa or upon the date the driver's license or
     8  learner's  permit  would  otherwise expire under this chapter, whichever
     9  date first occurs.  If the driver's license or learner's  permit  of  an
    10  alien with a visa expires before the alien's visa expires then the alien
    11  can  renew such license or permit upon showing the department proof of a
    12  valid visa.
    13    § 2. Section 491 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
    14  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    15    1-a. Period of validity; visa.  Whenever an identification card issued
    16  by the department has been issued to an alien  who  has  been  issued  a
    17  visa,  such  identification card shall expire upon the expiration of the
    18  visa or upon the date the identification  card  would  otherwise  expire
    19  under  this chapter, whichever date first occurs.  If the identification
    20  card of an alien with a visa expires before  the  alien's  visa  expires
    21  then  the  alien  can  renew  such  identification card upon showing the
    22  department proof of a valid visa.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
    25  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    26  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    27  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08865-01-1