S 4341: Requires department of motor vehicle forms, tests and applications for permits and licenses in a city with a population of one million or more to be available in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4341 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring certain motor vehicle forms and applications to be available in Punja- bi, Bengali and Hindi The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows: 3 10. Forms to be made available in certain foreign languages. Except 4 as otherwise prohibited by federal law, rule or regulation the commis- 5 sioner shall, within a city having a population of one million or more, 6 ensure that all written tests, forms and applications for an initial 7 learner's permit or driver's license issued pursuant to the provisions 8 of this article are also available in Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi and 9 provide translation and interpretation services in such languages to a 10 person applying for such learner's permit or driver's license in such 11 city, upon his or her request. Nothing contained in this subdivision 12 shall be deemed to prohibit the commissioner from making such tests, 13 forms, applications, and translation and interpretation services avail- 14 able in other languages. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 16 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05598-01-5