What's happening
This bill adds specific medical conditions that qualify for exceptions to New York's motor vehicle window tinting laws.
Why it matters
Expands access for people with rare medical conditions. By specifically naming conditions such as polymorphous light eruption, porphyria, xeroderma pigmentosa, and severe drug photo-sensitivity, the bill ensures that individuals with these diagnoses can legally have tinted vehicle windows, which can be crucial to protecting their health from sunlight.
Reduces ambiguity in the law. Adding explicit medical conditions to the law provides clearer guidance for both patients and regulators, making it easier for affected individuals to understand their rights and for authorities to process exemption requests.
Improves daily life and mobility for vulnerable patients. For those whose conditions are triggered or worsened by sunlight, legal access to window tinting can significantly increase their independence, ability to travel, and overall quality of life, minimizing health risks associated with sun exposure.
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Expand Medical Window Tint Exemptions
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Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 127
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History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5621
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to tinting on motor vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 16 of section 206 of the public health law, as added by chapter 135 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
16. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles, shall promulgate rules and regulations specifying the medical conditions based on health and safety which justify granting an exception to the requirements of subparagraphs one and two of paragraph (b) of subdivision twelve-a of section three hundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law. Such medical conditions, shall include, but not be limited to, polymorphous light eruption, porphyia, xeroderma pigmentosa, and severe drug photo-sensitivity.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09686-01-7
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