Bill Text: NY S07078 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits the commissioner of motor vehicles to require any licensed driver to submit to an examination or reexamination prior to his or her normal renewal date upon receipt of a recommendation from a court having jurisdiction of traffic offenses, or the governor or chief magistrate of a state or territory stating that the driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely is questionable.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07078-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7078--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  reexamina-
          tion of licensees

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

     1    Section 1. Section 506 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  The  commissioner  may require any licensed driver to submit to an
     4  examination or reexamination prior to his or  her  normal  renewal  date
     5  upon  receipt  of  a  recommendation from a court having jurisdiction of
     6  traffic offenses, or the governor or chief  magistrate  of  a  state  or
     7  territory  stating  that the driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle
     8  safely is questionable. In reviewing such licensed  driver's  qualifica-
     9  tions  to  operate a motor vehicle, the commissioner shall only consider
    10  the previous ten years of the licensed driver's driving record.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11391-02-3