Bill Text: NY A00679 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires department of motor vehicle forms, tests and applications for permits and licenses in a city with a population of one million or more to be available in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-25 - reported referred to ways and means [A00679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00679-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         679--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          certain motor vehicle forms and applications to be available in Punja-
          bi, Bengali and Hindi
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8. Forms to be made available in certain foreign languages.  Except as
     4  otherwise prohibited by federal law, rule or regulation the commissioner
     5  shall, within a city having a population of one million or more,  ensure
     6  that  all written tests, forms and applications for an initial learner's
     7  permit or driver's license issued pursuant to  the  provisions  of  this
     8  article  are  also  available  in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi and provide
     9  translation and interpretation services in such languages  to  a  person
    10  applying  for  such  learner's  permit or driver's license in such city,
    11  upon his or her request.  Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be
    12  deemed to prohibit the  commissioner  from  making  such  tests,  forms,
    13  applications,  and  translation and interpretation services available in
    14  other languages.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    16  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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