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Home/Bills/A 61New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 61: Provides that the commissioner of motor vehicles may contract with private companies or public entities to provide lists of driver's license and partial operating records maintained and collected by the department of motor vehicles.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What A 61 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill allows the state to contract with private companies or public entities to provide driver's license and partial operating record information. The commissioner can share this information, but only with written agreements that comply with the federal driver's privacy protection act of 1994. The shared information will only include specific details such as driver's license number, state of issuance, violation date, and disposition information. The state will not share this information unless the recipient agrees to follow the federal act. The bill takes effect immediately.

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Last action: referred to transportation (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to transportation
Jan. 08, 2025referred to transportation
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 273 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 61 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to driver's license lists and operating record information The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 202 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. Driver's license lists and operating record information. The 4 commissioner may contract with private companies or public entities to 5 provide lists of driver's license and partial operating records main- 6 tained and collected by the department pursuant to this chapter. The 7 fees provided by this section shall not apply to copies of records 8 furnished under any such contract. Any such contract shall be limited to 9 only that part of the driver's license and operating record describing 10 the: driver's license number, driver's license state of issuance, 11 violation date, summons number, violation description, disposition date, 12 disposition description and scofflaw information. The department shall 13 not furnish such information except upon execution by the recipient of a 14 written agreement to comply with the federal Driver's Privacy Protection 15 Act of 1994, as amended, (18 U.S.C. § 2721 et seq.). 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00437-01-5 
Text of A 61 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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