Bill Text: NY A10082 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of motor vehicles compile a list of veterans who apply for a veteran driver's license and provide such list to the department of veterans' services to aid in outreach efforts by the department of veterans' services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - referred to transportation [A10082 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10082-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10082

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  veterans'  services
          law,  in  relation to requiring the department of motor vehicles share
          certain veteran information with the department of veterans' services

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 504-a to read as follows:
     3    § 504-a. Department of motor vehicles reporting of veteran status.  1.
     4  For  the purposes of this section, "veteran" shall have the same meaning
     5  as such term is defined in section thirty-two of the  veterans'  service
     6  law.
     7    2.  The  department  shall  create and maintain a list of veterans who
     8  apply for a veteran driver's license pursuant to  section  five  hundred
     9  four  of  this  article. The commissioner shall provide such list to the
    10  department of veterans' services to assist the department  of  veterans'
    11  services  in  outreach  efforts regarding available services to veterans
    12  and shall update such list as necessary to ensure such list is current.
    13    § 2. Subdivision 36 of section 4 of  the  veterans'  services  law  is
    14  amended to read as follows:
    15    36.  To  coordinate  outreach  efforts  that  ensure  members  of  the
    16  uniformed services and veterans who are residents  of  this  state,  and
    17  their families, are made aware of services for veterans from any depart-
    18  ments,  divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions or agencies of the state
    19  or any political subdivision of this state.  The department  in  coordi-
    20  nating  such  outreach efforts shall utilize a list of veterans provided
    21  by the department of motor vehicles in accordance with the provisions of
    22  section five hundred four-a of the vehicle and traffic law.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14683-01-4