New York S 6158: Relates to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags

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S06158 Summary:

BILL NOS06158A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGOUNARDES

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §134-d, amd §401, V & T L

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Relates to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and the registration of motor vehicles.

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BILL NOS06158A

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03/05/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

04/14/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

04/14/2025PRINT NUMBER 6158A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6158--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
 tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
 mitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to radio-fre-
 quency identification (RFID) tags

 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 134-d to read as follows:
 3 § 134-d. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. A wireless device
 4 or tag that stores and transmits information between a reader and a
 5 radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag through radio waves without
 6 making any physical contact or requiring a line of sight, and which is:
 7 1. capable of storing, at a minimum:
 8 (a) such tag's unique identification number; and
 9 (b) the number plate, number plate state of issuance, number plate
 10 type, and vehicle identification number of the vehicle to which such tag
 11 is affixed;
 12 2. physically and electronically tamper-proof;
 13 3. compatible with the certificate of registration system established
 14 by the department; and
 15 4. compatible with interoperability standards established by the
 16 department and other relevant entities for use of the E-ZPass system.
 17 For the purposes of this subdivision, the "E-ZPass system" shall mean a
 18 system that uses a receiver-transmitter issued by a state authority,
 19 local authority, or interstate authority, as such terms are defined in
 20 section two of the public authorities law, for electronic toll
 21 collection when such receiver-transmitter is attached to a motor vehicle
 22 in accordance with mounting instructions provided by such state authori-
 23 ty, local authority, or interstate authority.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10747-02-5

 S. 6158--A 2

 1 § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 401 of the vehicle and
 2 traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws
 3 of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 4 a. Upon filing of such application and the payment of the fee herein-
 5 after provided, the commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicle a
 6 distinctive number and, without expense to the applicant, issue and
 7 deliver in such manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a
 8 certificate of registration, in such form as the commissioner shall
 9 prescribe, and two number plates at a place within the state of New York
 10 named by the applicant in [his or her] such applicant's application. A
 11 number plate, within the meaning of this chapter, may, in the discretion
 12 of the commissioner, be a plate of a permanent nature, treated with
 13 reflectorized material according to specifications prescribed by the
 14 commissioner, and with a date tag attached to such plate or to the vehi-
 15 cle as prescribed by regulations of the commissioner indicating the
 16 validity of the plate during a certain period and the issuance of such a
 17 number plate with such date tag to a person possessing such a number
 18 plate shall be deemed the issuance of a number plate. A date tag, with-
 19 in the meaning of this chapter, shall include a radio-frequency iden-
 20 tification (RFID) tag, as defined in section one hundred thirty-four-d
 21 of this chapter. An additional fee, not to exceed twenty-f