New York S 4958: Creates an identification card program for local correctional facilities; and relates to issuance of and waiver of fees for identification cards issued pursuant to certain identification card programs

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S04958 Summary:

BILL NOS04958 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06732

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SPONSORBAILEY

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COSPNSRCOONEY

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §512, Cor L; amd §§490 & 491, V & T L

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Creates an identification card program for incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities; requires such identification cards to be identical to non-driver identification cards issued to the general public; waives fees for such identification cards.

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BILL NOS04958 

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02/14/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4958

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to creating an identifi-
 cation card program for incarcerated individuals in local correctional
 facilities; and to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to
 issuance of and waiver of fees for identification cards issued pursu-
 ant to identification card programs under the correction law

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

 1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 512
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 512. Identification card program. 1. For purposes of this section,
 4 "identification card" shall have the same meaning as defined in section
 5 four hundred ninety of the vehicle and traffic law.
 6 2. The department of motor vehicles shall develop a program that would
 7 allow incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities without
 8 an identification card, or who have not been issued a driver's license
 9 or learner's permit by the commissioner of motor vehicles, or whose
 10 driver's license or learner's permit is expired, suspended, revoked or
 11 surrendered, or whose identification card is expired, to obtain an iden-
 12 tification card prior to such incarcerated individual's release from a
 13 local correctional facility at the option of such incarcerated individ-
 14 ual.
 15 3. The sentence and commitment of an incarcerated individual in a
 16 local correctional facility shall be deemed sufficient to grant authori-
 17 zation to the sheriff of such local correctional facility to assist such
 18 incarcerated individual to apply for and obtain an identification card
 19 from the department of motor vehicles.
 20 4. (a) Prior to an incarcerated individual's release from a local
 21 correctional facility, the sheriff of such local correctional facility

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09117-01-5

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 1 shall notify such incarcerated individual, verbally and in writing, of
 2 the identification card program under this section. The sheriff of such
 3 local correctional facility shall also document that they offered to
 4 assist such incarcerated individual in obtaining an identification card
 5 and if such incarcerated individual declined. The sheriff of a local
 6 correctional facility shall make diligent efforts to ensure that an
 7 incarcerated individual is provided with an identification card, if
 8 requested, prior to or upon the release of such individual from such
 9 local correctional facility.
 10 (b) If an identification card is obtained with the assistance of the
 11 sheriff of a local correctional facility for an incarcerated individual
 12 prior to such individual's release from such local correctional facili-
 13 ty, such identification card shall be kept in such incarcerated individ-
 14 ual's records until such individual is released from such local correc-
 15 tional facility; and upon such individual's release, such identification
 16 card shall be provided to such individual.
 17 § 2. Section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
 18 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
 19 4. Identification c