Bill Text: NY S06333 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish a yellow dot program under which the medical and emergency contact information of the occupants, aged 55 or older, of a motor vehicle is available to emergency personnel in the glove compartment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-27 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06333 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06333-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6333
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 27, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
         a yellow dot program for persons fifty-five years of age or older
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  200 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    3    3. (A) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH A YELLOW DOT PROGRAM FOR OPER-
    4  ATORS AND PASSENGERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES WHO ARE FIFTY-FIVE YEARS  OF  AGE
    5  OR  OLDER.  SUCH  PROGRAM  SHALL  INCLUDE  THE PROVISION OF A YELLOW DOT
    6  DECAL, OR MEDICAL INFORMATION AND EMERGENCY CONTACT FORM, AND A  DURABLE
    7  YELLOW  ENVELOPE FOR SUCH FORM. THE PLACEMENT OF THE YELLOW DOT DECAL ON
    8  THE LOWER LEFT CORNER OF THE REAR WINDOW OF A MOTOR VEHICLE SHALL  INDI-
    9  CATE  TO  EMERGENCY  PERSONNEL  THAT  THE  MEDICAL AND EMERGENCY CONTACT
   10  INFORMATION FOR THE OCCUPANTS OF SUCH VEHICLE MAY BE LOCATED IN A YELLOW
   11  ENVELOPE IN THE VEHICLE'S GLOVE COMPARTMENT.
   12    (B) THE COMMISSIONER, IN COOPERATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF  HEALTH,
   13  SHALL  ESTABLISH AND DISTRIBUTE THE MEDICAL AND EMERGENCY CONTACT INFOR-
   14  MATION FORM TO BE USED FOR THE YELLOW DOT PROGRAM.
   15    (C) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL MAKE YELLOW DOT PROGRAM MATERIALS AVAILABLE
   16  BY MAIL AND AT EVERY STATE AND COUNTY MOTOR VEHICLE OFFICE.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
   18  the  date  on which it shall have become a law, provided that, effective
   19  immediately, any action necessary to implement the  provisions  of  this
   20  act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on
   21  or before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13323-01-1