Bill Text: NY A05621 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Specifies that polymorphous light eruption, porphyia, xeroderma pigmentosa and severe drug photo-sensitivity are included in the medical conditions which justify granting an exception to regulations in subdivision 12-a of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A05621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05621-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5621
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 13, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to tinting on motor
          vehicles
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 16 of section 206 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 135 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    16. The commissioner, in consultation with  the  commissioner  of  the
     4  department  of  motor  vehicles,  shall promulgate rules and regulations
     5  specifying the medical conditions  based  on  health  and  safety  which
     6  justify  granting  an exception to the requirements of subparagraphs one
     7  and two of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  twelve-a  of  section  three
     8  hundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law. Such medical condi-
     9  tions,  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,  polymorphous  light
    10  eruption, porphyia, xeroderma pigmentosa, and severe  drug  photo-sensi-
    11  tivity.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09686-01-7
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