Bill Text: NY A08231 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition of any additional fee for the issuance of a driver's license or non-driver identification card with a veteran's distinguishing mark.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-11-07 - signed chap.429 [A08231 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A08231-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8231--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y November 6, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SWEENEY, ENGLEBRIGHT, THIELE, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER, LIFTON, MILLMAN, CYMBROWITZ, TITONE, COLTON, STIRPE, BRINDI- SI, BRONSON, SKOUFIS, SANTABARBARA, BRAUNSTEIN, SEPULVEDA, MILLER, HENNESSEY, COOK, CAHILL, RUSSELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, KEARNS, PERRY, ROBERTS, SIMANOWITZ, SKARTADOS, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommit- ted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting the imposition of any additional fee for a veteran's distinguishing mark on a non-driver identification card or a driver's license THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 490 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 487 of the laws of 2012, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) The identification card shall contain a distinguishing number or 5 mark and adequate space upon which an anatomical gift, pursuant to arti- 6 cle forty-three of the public health law, by the holder may be recorded 7 and shall contain such other information and shall be issued in such 8 form as the commissioner shall determine; provided, however, every iden- 9 tification card or renewal thereof issued to a person under the age of 10 twenty-one years shall have prominently imprinted thereon the statement 11 "UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE" in notably distinctive print or format. 12 Provided, further, however, that every identification card issued to an 13 applicant who was a member of the armed forces of the United States and 14 received [on] AN honorable discharge or was released therefrom under 15 honorable conditions shall, upon his or her request and submission of 16 proof as set forth herein, contain a distinguishing mark, in such form 17 as the commissioner shall determine, indicating that he or she is a EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11929-05-4 A. 8231--A 2 1 veteran. Such proof shall consist of a certificate of release or 2 discharge from active duty including but not limited to a DD Form 214 or 3 other proof satisfactory to the commissioner. The commissioner shall not 4 require fees for the issuance of such identification cards or renewals 5 thereof to persons under twenty-one years of age which are different 6 from the fees required for the issuance of identification cards or 7 renewals thereof to persons twenty-one years of age or over, nor fees to 8 persons requesting a veteran [notation] DISTINGUISHING MARK which are 9 different from fees that would otherwise be required. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, 10 THAT NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-ONE 11 OF THIS ARTICLE, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT REQUIRE ANY FEES FOR THE 12 DUPLICATION OR AMENDMENT OF AN IDENTIFICATION CARD PRIOR TO ITS RENEWAL 13 IF SUCH DUPLICATION OR AMENDMENT WAS SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDING A 14 VETERAN DISTINGUISHING MARK TO SUCH IDENTIFICATION CARD. 15 S 2. Paragraph (a-1) of subdivision 1 of section 504 of the vehicle 16 and traffic law, as added by chapter 487 of the laws of 2012, is amended 17 to read as follows: 18 (a-1) Every license or renewal thereof issued to an applicant who was 19 a member of the armed forces of the United States and received an honor- 20 able discharge or was released therefrom under honorable conditions 21 shall, upon his or her request and submission of proof as set forth 22 herein, contain a distinguishing mark, in such form as the commissioner 23 shall determine, indicating that he or she is a veteran. Such proof 24 shall consist of a certificate of release or discharge from active duty 25 including but not limited to a DD Form 214 or other proof satisfactory 26 to the commissioner. The commissioner shall not require fees for the 27 issuance of such licenses or renewals thereof to persons requesting a 28 veteran [notation] DISTINGUISHING MARK which [is] ARE different from 29 fees otherwise required; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NOTWITHSTANDING THE 30 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT REQUIRE FEES FOR 31 A DUPLICATION OR AMENDMENT OF A LICENSE PRIOR TO ITS RENEWAL IF SUCH 32 DUPLICATION OR AMENDMENT WAS SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDING A VETERAN 33 DISTINGUISHING MARK TO SUCH LICENSE. 34 S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 35 have become a law.