Bill Text: NY S04055 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows valid certificates of marriage from foreign governments and religious institutions as acceptable documentation to change a name on a driver's license, learner's permit, or identification card.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04055 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04055-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4055

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
          valid  certificates of marriage from foreign governments and religious
          institutions as acceptable documentation to change a name on the driv-
          er's license or non-driver identification card

          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. In addition to any other documentation acceptable to the  commis-
     4  sioner  for  the  purposes  of  changing  a  person's name on a driver's
     5  license pursuant to subdivision one of this  section,  the  commissioner
     6  may  accept  a  valid  certificate  of marriage from the government of a
     7  foreign country or from a bona fide religious  institution  that  issues
     8  certificates of marriage in a foreign country.
     9    § 2. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
    10  new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
    11    3-a.  In addition to any other documentation acceptable to the commis-
    12  sioner for the purposes of changing  a  person's  name  on  a  learner's
    13  permit  pursuant  to  subdivisions  two  and  three of this section, the
    14  commissioner may accept a valid certificate of marriage from the govern-
    15  ment of a foreign country or from a bona fide religious institution that
    16  issues certificates of marriage in a foreign country.
    17    § 3. Section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
    18  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    19    2-a. In addition to any other documentation acceptable to the  commis-
    20  sioner  for  purposes  of  changing a person's name on an identification
    21  card, the commissioner may accept a valid certificate of  marriage  from
    22  the government of a foreign country or from a bona fide religious insti-
    23  tution that issues certificates of marriage in a foreign country.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     2  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     3  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     4  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
     5  on or before such date.