Requires the department of motor vehicles to enter information regarding a suspension or revocation of a driver's license on his or her driving record; requires the department to work with local law enforcement agencies to facilitate a uniform means for such agencies to gain immediate electronic access to a licensee's driving record; requires the commissioner to submit a report regarding existing means utilized for such access.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A107
SPONSOR: Quart TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspension
and revocation information on the driving record of a person licensed to
drive a motor vehicle
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure that
changes of status of driver licenses are promptly added to a driver's
driving record and that those records be easily accessible to local law
enforcement officers.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amends the vehicle and traffic law to add a new section 510-d
which requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to enter a suspension,
revocation or expiration of a driver license within twenty days of
receiving notice of such an event and to coordinate with local law
enforcement agencies to create a mechanism for law enforcement officers
to immediately access this driving record information.
Section 2. Amends the vehicle and traffic law to require the commission-
er of the Department of Motor Vehicles to report on the current methods
that law enforcement agencies use to access driving records and recom-
mend more efficient methods.
Section 3. Effective Date.
JUSTIFICATION:
In 2010, there were 1,119 fatal traffic crashes, 134,151 crashes that
resulted in injuries and nearly 259,000 total crashes in New York. 75%
of those crashes can be linked to human causes, not mechanical failures.
It is essential that the state take the necessary measures to prevent
chronically dangerous drivers from returning to the roads by providing
law enforcement officers with the ability to quickly and easily identify
drivers who have had their license suspended or revoked for previous
dangerous behavior, making our roads safer.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2019-2020: A0828 referred to transportation
2017-2018: A3602 referred to transportation
2015-2016: A4792 referred to transportation
2013-2014: A2260 referred to transportation
2012: A10462 referred to transportation
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the state.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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107
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspension
and revocation information on the driving record of a person licensed
to drive a motor vehicle
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 510-e to read as follows:
3 § 510-e. Suspension and revocation information on driving record. 1.
4 Whenever a suspension, revocation or expiration of a license to drive a
5 motor vehicle or motorcycle occurs, the department shall enter the
6 suspension, revocation or expiration order on the licensee's driving
7 record within twenty days after receipt of such information. Any inquiry
8 into the licensee's driving record after the twenty day period shall
9 reveal that the license is suspended, revoked or expired.
10 2. The department shall work with local law enforcement agencies to
11 facilitate a uniform means for such agencies to gain immediate electron-
12 ic access to a licensee's driving record and particularly access to
13 information regarding a licensee's driving record as entered on such
14 record pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
15 § 2. The commissioner of the department of motor vehicles shall submit
16 a report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the
17 speaker of the assembly on or before January first, two thousand twen-
18 ty-two, summarizing the existing means utilized by law enforcement agen-
19 cies to access information regarding the suspension, revocation or expi-
20 ration of a license to drive a motor vehicle or motorcycle, along with
21 recommendations for more efficient methods therefor.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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