What's happening
This bill waives the fee for a replacement driver's license or ID card if requested solely to add organ donor status.
Why it matters
Removes a financial barrier for individuals who want to newly indicate organ donor status on their driver's license or ID card. , potentially encouraging more people to register as organ donors by eliminating the replacement fee.
Targets the specific scenario where a replacement card is requested solely to add organ donor designation. , ensuring that the waiver is not used for other types of changes or replacements, which helps control costs and focuses the policy impact.
May increase organ donor registrations in New York. , which could have a significant effect on public health by boosting the availability of organs for transplantation and saving more lives.
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No Fee for Donor ID
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History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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No-Fee Organ Donor License
In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Daphne Jordan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5074
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing for the waiver of the fee for a replacement driver's license or identification card if the replacement driver's license or identification card is requested solely for the purpose of designating that the applicant is an organ donor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 503 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 548 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
3. Waiver of fee. The commissioner may waive the payment of fees required by subdivision two of this section if the applicant:
(i) is an inmate in an institution under the jurisdiction of a state department or agency, or
(ii) is a victim of crime and the driver's license or learner's permit applied for is a replacement for one that was lost or destroyed as a result of the crime, or
(iii) is applying for the replacement driver's license solely for the purpose of designating on the applicant's driver's license that the applicant is an organ donor.
§ 2. Subdivision 3 of section 491 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section 1 of part H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
3. Waiver of fee. The commissioner may waive the payment of fees required by subdivision two of this section if the applicant:
(i) is a victim of a crime and the identification card applied for is a replacement for one that was lost or destroyed as a result of the crime, or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(ii) is applying for the replacement identification card solely for the purpose of designating on the applicant's identification card that the applicant is an organ donor.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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