Bill Text: NY S07745 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows the federal government access to certain department of motor vehicles information for the purposes of reviewing applications for federal programs or for the purposes of investigating a person for federal law enforcement and/or national security issues.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-11 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S07745 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07745-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7745 IN SENATE February 12, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACOBS -- 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 the federal government access to certain department of motor vehicles information for the purposes of reviewing applications for federal programs, federal law enforcement, national security and used car exports; and to repeal certain provisions of such law related thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 201 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law is REPEALED and two new subdivisions 12 and 13 are added to read as 3 follows: 4 12. Notwithstanding subdivisions eight, nine, ten, and eleven of this 5 section, when a federal agency that primarily enforces immigration law, 6 including but not limited to United States immigration and customs 7 enforcement and United States customs and border protection, or any 8 successor agencies having similar duties requests documents, records, or 9 other information for the purposes of such agency's review of an appli- 10 cation submitted by a person for a federal program, or for the purposes 11 of investigating a person for federal law enforcement and/or national 12 security issues, the commissioner shall disclose and otherwise make 13 accessible any requested documents, records, or other information where 14 the subject of the request is the subject of such documents, records, or 15 other information. 16 13. Notwithstanding subdivisions eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve 17 of this section, when a federal agency that primarily enforces immi- 18 gration law, including but not limited to United States immigration and 19 customs enforcement and United States customs and border protection, or 20 any successor agencies having similar duties requests documents, 21 records, or other information for the purposes of such agency approving 22 a vehicle for export, the commissioner shall disclose and otherwise make 23 accessible any requested documents, records, or other information where 24 the vehicle pending approval is the subject of such documents, records, 25 or other information. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15291-06-0