What's happening
This bill extends the expiration date for suspending driving privileges to enforce support payments from 2019 to 2021.
Why it matters
Continues a key enforcement tool. By extending the expiration date, the bill preserves the state’s ability to suspend driving privileges for those who fail to pay court-ordered child or spousal support, maintaining pressure to comply with support obligations.
Impacts families and children. The extension can help ensure that custodial parents and children continue to receive the financial support they are owed, which may otherwise be difficult to collect.
Affects non-compliant payers' mobility and employment. The threat or reality of losing a driver’s license can significantly impact a person’s ability to work and meet daily needs, creating a strong incentive to resolve outstanding support payments.
Signals legislative intent to review policy. The use of a short-term extension (just two years) suggests lawmakers may intend to revisit and possibly reevaluate this enforcement strategy in the near future.
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Extend License Suspensions for Support
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History
- Signed chap.169
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.1374
- Substituted for S6388
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.574
- Reported
- Referred to social services
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Extend License Suspension Rule
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Roxanne J. Persaud
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7788
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 21, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- (at request of the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend chapter 81 of the laws of 1995, amending the vehicle and traffic law and other laws relating to the enforcement of support through the suspension of driving privileges, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 19 of section 246 of chapter 81 of the laws of 1995, amending the vehicle and traffic law and other laws relating to the enforcement of support through the suspension of driving privileges, as amended by chapter 138 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
19. Sections two hundred one, two hundred eight, two hundred eleven, two hundred thirteen, two hundred fifteen and two hundred sixteen of this act shall expire and be deemed repealed on August 31, [2019] 2021.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that if this act shall have become a law on or after August 31, 2019 this act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after August 31, 2019.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09229-01-9
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