Bill Text: NY S06887 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates noting an address change on driver licenses and non-driver identification cards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-30 - SIGNED CHAP.317 [S06887 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06887-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6887

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 20, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY  --  (at request of the Department of Motor
          Vehicles) -- 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 eliminating
          noting an address change on driver licenses and non-driver identifica-
          tion cards

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

     1    Section  1.    Subdivision 3 of section 492 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 295 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3. Change of address. It shall be the duty of every holder of an iden-
     5  tification  card  to notify the commissioner in writing of any change of
     6  residence of such holder within ten days after such change  occurs  [and
     7  to  make  a  notation  of such change of residence on the identification
     8  card in the place provided by the commissioner].
     9    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 505 of the vehicle and traffic  law,  as
    10  added by chapter 780 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
    11    5. Change of address. It shall be the duty of every licensee to notify
    12  the  commissioner in writing of any change of residence of such licensee
    13  within ten days after such change occurs [and to make a notation of such
    14  change of residence on such license in the place provided by the commis-
    15  sioner].
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



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