Bill Text: NY S06907 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Indemnifies department of motor vehicle employees for processing non-commercial drivers' licenses and learners' permits which do not meet federal standards for identification when such license is used or involved in certain criminal acts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06907 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06907-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6907

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the indemni-
          fication of department of motor vehicle employees for processing  non-
          commercial  drivers'  licenses and learners' permits which do not meet
          federal standards for identification

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f)  The commissioner and any agent or employee of the commissioner or
     4  county clerk who, in good faith and without prior knowledge of any crim-
     5  inal act associated with an application for  a  non-commercial  driver's
     6  license  or  learner's  permit which does not meet federal standards for
     7  identification, processes such  an  application  shall  immediately  and
     8  thereafter  be  relieved  and  held  harmless  for  any  and all claims,
     9  damages, or liabilities including civil and criminal fines, arising from
    10  any criminal act  involving  such  non-commercial  driver's  license  or
    11  learner's permit, including but not be limited to:
    12    1.  identity  theft offenses as defined in sections 190.78, 190.79 and
    13  190.80 of the penal law;
    14    2. unlawful possession of personal identification information  in  the
    15  first degree as defined in section 190.83 of the penal law;
    16    3. terrorism offenses as defined in article four hundred ninety of the
    17  penal law;
    18    4.  forgery offenses as defined in sections 170.05, 170.10, and 170.15
    19  of the penal law; or
    20    5. money laundering offenses as defined in article four hundred seven-
    21  ty of the penal law.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    23  manner  as  chapter 37 of the laws of 2019, takes effect and shall apply
    24  to any actions filed on or after such date.

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