What's happening
This bill requires New York driver's licenses to include space for listing a health care proxy agent's name and contact information.
Why it matters
Adds a clear place on every New York driver's license for listing a health care proxy's name and contact information, making it easier for first responders and medical staff to quickly identify and contact your chosen agent in an emergency.
Empowers individuals to make their health care wishes known and accessible, especially if they cannot communicate during a medical crisis, potentially improving the chances that their medical preferences will be respected.
Could reduce confusion or delays around decision-making in critical situations by providing a straightforward way to link a person’s identity with their health care agent, avoiding the need to search for separate legal documents.
May encourage more people to designate a health care proxy and complete related forms, knowing that this information can be easily referenced and kept with their primary form of identification.
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Add Health Proxy to Licenses
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Sponsors
4 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2898
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, BRONSON, HOOPER, M. G. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, LUPARDO, McKEV- ITT, PERRY, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to health care proxy information on driver's licenses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 504 of the vehicle and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 568 and 639 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Every license or renewal thereof shall contain a distinguishing mark and adequate space upon which an anatomical gift, pursuant to section forty-three hundred ten of the public health law, by the licensee shall be recorded and shall contain such other information and shall be issued in such form as the commissioner shall determine; provided, however, every license or renewal thereof issued to a person under the age of twenty-one years shall have prominently imprinted upon it the statement "UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE" in notably distinctive print or format; provided further, however, every license or renewal thereof issued to a person making an anatomical gift shall have prominently printed upon the front of such license or renewal thereof the statement "ORGAN DONOR" in notably distinctive print or format; and provided further that every license shall have imprinted on the back, "If you have completed a health care proxy form, you may list your health care agent here:" followed by space for the health care agent's name and contact information. The commissioner shall not require fees for the issuance of such licenses or renewals thereof to persons under twentyone years of age or to persons making an anatomical gift which are different from the fees required for the issuance of licenses or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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renewals thereof to persons twenty-one years of age or over or to persons not making an anatomical gift.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
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