Bill Text: NY S01900 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Allows severely disabled individuals to apply for renewal of a parking permit for a handicapped person without providing an updated certification or additional medical documents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-30 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2487A [S01900 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01900-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1900--A Cal. No. 774 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, CHU, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans- portation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accord- ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing severely disabled individuals to renew parking permits without provid- ing an updated medical certification or additional medical documents The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 1203-a of the 2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 1996, 3 is amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows: 4 (i) any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled person, 5 as defined in subdivision [three] four of section four hundred four-a of 6 this chapter, upon application of such person or such person's parent or 7 guardian, provided, however, that an issuing agent shall issue permits 8 only to residents of the city, town or village in which such issuing 9 agent is located, except that, an issuing agent, in [his or her] their 10 discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is not 11 a resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is 12 located where such person resides in a city, town, or village in which 13 the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent; and an issuing 14 agent, in [his or her] their discretion, may issue a temporary special 15 vehicle identification parking permit, as authorized by subdivision 16 three of this section, to a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate 17 without the aid of an assisting device, as certified by a physician, who 18 resides in a city, town, or village in which the issuing agent does not 19 issue temporary special vehicle identification parking permits, or who EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05031-03-4S. 1900--A 2 1 is not a resident of the United States and is temporarily visiting the 2 state; or 3 1-a. Any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled person, 4 as defined in subdivision four of section four hundred four-a of this 5 chapter, shall not be required to provide an updated medical certif- 6 ication or additional medical documents upon application for renewal of 7 a permit issued pursuant to this section. For the purposes of this 8 subdivision, the term "permit" shall not include a temporary special 9 vehicle identification parking permit issued pursuant to this section to 10 a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate without the aid of an 11 assisting device. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
