A 5964: Provides space on a driver's license for health care proxy information.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5964 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, BRONSON, LUPARDO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to health care proxy information on driver's licenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 504 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 568 and 639 of 3 the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Every license or renewal thereof shall contain a distinguishing 5 mark and adequate space upon which an anatomical gift, pursuant to 6 section forty-three hundred ten of the public health law, by the licen- 7 see shall be recorded and shall contain such other information and shall 8 be issued in such form as the commissioner shall determine; provided, 9 however, every license or renewal thereof issued to a person under the 10 age of twenty-one years shall have prominently imprinted upon it the 11 statement "UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE" in notably distinctive print or 12 format; provided further, however, every license or renewal thereof 13 issued to a person making an anatomical gift shall have prominently 14 printed upon the front of such license or renewal thereof the statement 15 "ORGAN DONOR" in notably distinctive print or format; and provided 16 further that every license shall have imprinted on the back, "If you 17 have completed a health care proxy form, you may list your health care 18 agent here:" followed by space for the health care agent's name and 19 contact information. The commissioner shall not require fees for the 20 issuance of such licenses or renewals thereof to persons under twenty- 21 one years of age or to persons making an anatomical gift which are 22 different from the fees required for the issuance of licenses or 23 renewals thereof to persons twenty-one years of age or over or to 24 persons not making an anatomical gift. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 26 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06089-01-5