Bill Text: NY S05298 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Authorizes exemptions for persons with skin cancers such as melanoma to have tinted windows on their vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05298 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05298-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5298
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 23, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- 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  authorizing
          exemptions  for tinted windows for persons suffering from skin cancers
          such as melanoma
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of subdivision 12-a of section 375 of the
     2  vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 135 of the laws of  1994,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  Any  person  required for medical reasons to be shielded from the
     5  direct rays of the sun and/or  any  person  operating  a  motor  vehicle
     6  belonging  to such person or in which such person is an habitual passen-
     7  ger shall be exempt from the provisions of subparagraphs one and two  of
     8  paragraph  (b) of this subdivision provided the commissioner has granted
     9  an exemption and notice of such exemption is affixed to the  vehicle  as
    10  directed  by  the  commissioner.  The  applicant for such exemption must
    11  provide a physician's statement with the reason for the  exemption,  the
    12  name of the individual with a medically necessary condition operating or
    13  transported  in  the  vehicle,  the specific condition involved, and the
    14  minimum level of light transmission  required.  The  commissioner  shall
    15  [only]  authorize  exemptions  for  persons suffering from skin cancers,
    16  including but not limited to melanoma, and where the  medical  condition
    17  certified  by the physician is contained on a list of medical conditions
    18  prepared by the commissioner of health pursuant to  subdivision  sixteen
    19  of  section  two  hundred  six of the public health law.  If such [such]
    20  exemption is granted, the commissioner shall make a record  thereof  and
    21  shall  distribute  a sufficiently noticeable sticker to the applicant to
    22  be attached to any window  so  shielded  or  altered  pursuant  to  such
    23  exemption.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11321-01-9