Bill Text: NY A09083 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows certificates of marriage from foreign governments and religious institutions as acceptable documentation to change a name on a driver's license or non-driver identification card.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-17 - referred to transportation [A09083 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09083-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9083

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
          certificates of marriage from foreign governments and religious insti-
          tutions as acceptable documentation to change a name on  the  driver's
          license or non-driver identification card

          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 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  In addition to any other documentation acceptable to the commis-
     4  sioner for the purposes of  changing  a  person's  name  on  a  driver's
     5  license  pursuant  to  subdivision one of this section, the commissioner
     6  shall accept a certificate of marriage from the government of a  foreign
     7  country  or  from  a bona fide religious institution that issues certif-
     8  icates of marriage in a foreign country.
     9    § 2. Section 502 vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding  a  new
    10  subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
    11    3-a.  In addition to any other documentation acceptable to the commis-
    12  sioner for the purposes of changing a  person's  name  on  a  non-driver
    13  identification  card  pursuant  to  subdivisions  two  and three of this
    14  section, the commissioner shall accept a certificate  of  marriage  from
    15  the government of a foreign country or from a bona fide religious insti-
    16  tution that issues certificates of marriage in a foreign country.
    17    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    19  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    20  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    21  on or before such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14550-01-9