S6556 • 2025

Relates to driver's license lists and operating record information

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Sponsor: Jeremy Cooney
Last action: 2026-05-19
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to driver's license lists and operating record information

Relates to driver's license lists and operating record information 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.

What This Bill Does

Relates to driver's license lists and operating record information 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.

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Bill History

2026-05-19 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-03-17 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Relates to driver's license lists and operating record information
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.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          6556

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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  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