Bill Text: NY A04520 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A04520 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04520-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4520

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred 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.
                                                                   LBD05683-01-1