Bill Text: NY A09120 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to veteran suspended licenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-8)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-28 - referred to transportation [A09120 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09120-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9120 IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to veteran suspended licenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 503 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 548 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 3. Waiver of fee. (a) The commissioner may waive the payment of fees 5 required by subdivision two of this section if the applicant: 6 (i) is an inmate in an institution under the jurisdiction of a state 7 department or agency, or 8 (ii) is a victim of crime and the driver's license or learner's permit 9 applied for is a replacement for one that was lost or destroyed as a 10 result of the crime. 11 (b) A military service member, including a member of the United States 12 Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard, or a member of the New 13 York army national guard, air national guard, naval militia or state 14 guard, whose license or registration is suspended or revoked during the 15 pendency of active duty military service outside the state, shall, upon 16 the submission of proof of such active service to the commissioner, be 17 lifted and vacated upon order of the commissioner, without cost, fee, 18 fine, or penalty. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, 19 the commissioner may impose a new suspension of such service member's 20 driver's license or registration, after sixty days of the return of the 21 service member from such active military service, or after sixty days of 22 the lifting or vacating of the suspension or revocation, whichever is 23 later, if the reason upon which the license or registration was 24 originally suspended, has not been resolved. Prior to the issuance of 25 the new suspension or revocation, the commissioner shall notify the 26 service member not less than thirty days before such new suspension or 27 revocation would take effect. No suspension or revocation of a license 28 of a service member shall be lifted or vacated in accordance with this EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02438-04-6