File #: Int 0244-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the New York city department of education to distribute New York state non-driver identification card applications to all high school students.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to distribute New York state non-driver identification card applications to all high school students
Sponsors: Crystal Hudson, Rita C. Joseph, Lynn C. Schulman, Shahana K. Hanif, James F. Gennaro, Gale A. Brewer, Farah N. Louis, Shaun Abreu, Sandra Ung, (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough Presiden
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to distribute information about New York state non-driver identification cards to every student grades 9 through 12 at the start of each school year. At a minimum, this legislation would require the DOE to provide every student with a non-driver identification card application form, as well as information about eligibility requirements and the application process, including but not limited to relevant application fees and a list of documents accepted to prove identity and residency requirements.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 244, 2. Int. No. 244, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 28, 2024

Int. No. 244

 

By Council Members Hudson, Joseph, Schulman, Hanif, Gennaro, Brewer, Louis, Abreu and Ung (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to distribute New York state non-driver identification card applications to all high school students

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Section 21-1001 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 48 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER 30

DISTRIBUTION OF [IDNYC MUNICIPAL] INFORMATION REGARDING IDENTIFICATION [PROGRAM MATERIALS] CARDS

§ 21-1001 Distribution of [IDNYC municipal] information regarding identification [program materials] cards. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

IDNYC. The term “IDNYC” means the New York city identity card established pursuant to section 3-115.

Non-driver identification card. The term “non-driver identification card” means the identification card established pursuant to section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law.

                     School. The term “school” means a school of the city school district of the city of New York that contains any combination of grades from and including grade 9 through grade 12.

                     b. At the start of each school year, the department shall distribute to each school, for distribution to every student of such school, information related to the IDNYC program. Distribution of such information to schools and students may be in hard copy or electronic if distribution of other similar information occurs electronically. At a minimum, such information shall include the IDNYC application form and information on: (i) eligibility requirements; (ii) the application process, including but not limited to a list of documents accepted to prove identity and residency; and (iii) relevant benefits and discounts provided to IDNYC cardholders.

c. At the start of each school year, the department shall distribute to each school, for distribution to every student of such school, information related to non-driver identification cards. Distribution of such information to schools and students may be in hard copy or electronic if distribution of other similar information occurs electronically. At a minimum, such information shall include the non-driver identification card application form and information on: (i) eligibility requirements and (ii) the application process, including but not limited to relevant application fees and a list of documents accepted to prove identity and residency.

                     [c.] d. The department shall make available the information required to be distributed pursuant to subdivision b and c of this section on the department’s website in English and in each of the designated citywide languages, as such term is defined in subdivision a of section 23-1101.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

Session 13

LS #9367

1/25/24

 

Session 12

IP/NJF

LS #9367

5/15/23 10:25am