Bill Text: NY S00775 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enables veterans to receive benefit information upon applying for or renewing a driver's license.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-23 - referred to transportation [S00775 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00775-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 775--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, ADDABBO, COMRIE, DIAZ, DILAN, GIANARIS, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KENNEDY, LARKIN, MONTGOMERY, PANEPINTO, PARKER, SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the executive law, in relation to enabling veterans to receive benefit information upon applying for or renewing 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. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. Special provisions for veterans. In addition to the requirements 4 for license applications under subdivision one of this section, the 5 commissioner shall ensure that space is provided on the application to 6 enable any applicant who was a member of the armed forces of the United 7 States and received an honorable discharge or was released therefrom 8 under honorable conditions, to register to receive information from the 9 division of veterans' affairs by email or telephone regarding benefits 10 to which such applicant may be entitled and that the following is stated 11 on the application: "By checking this box, you certify that you served 12 in the armed forces of the United States and you give permission to the 13 department of motor vehicles to share your name and contact information 14 with the division of veterans' affairs to enable the division of veter- 15 ans' affairs to contact you via email, telephone or mail regarding bene- 16 fits to which you may be entitled". Proof of veteran status shall be 17 demonstrated in the same manner required by the commissioner to receive 18 a veteran notation pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision three of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01780-02-6
