2023 New York Laws › COR - Correction › Article 2 - Department of Corrections and Community Supervision › 11 - Identification Card Program.

§  11.  Identification  card program. 1. For purposes of this section,
"identification card" shall have the same meaning as defined in  section
four hundred ninety of the vehicle and traffic law.
2.  The  commissioner,  in consultation with the commissioner of motor
vehicles,  shall  develop  a  program  that  would  allow   incarcerated
individuals  without an identification card, or incarcerated individuals
who have not been issued a driver's license or learner's permit  by  the
commissioner  of  motor  vehicles,  or  incarcerated  individuals  whose
driver's license or learner's permit is expired, suspended,  revoked  or
surrendered,  or  incarcerated  individuals whose identification card is
expired, to obtain an identification  card  prior  to  the  incarcerated
individual's  release from an institution or correctional facility under
the jurisdiction of the department or upon the individual's release from
an institution or correctional facility under the  jurisdiction  of  the
department at the option of the incarcerated individual.
3.  The  sentence  and  commitment  or certificate of conviction of an
incarcerated  individual   shall   be   deemed   sufficient   to   grant
authorization to the department of corrections and community supervision
to  assist  an incarcerated individual in an institution or correctional
facility under the jurisdiction of such  department  to  apply  for  and
obtain an identification card from the department of motor vehicles.
4.   (a)  Prior  to  an  incarcerated  individual's  release  from  an
institution or correctional  facility  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the
department,  the  department  shall  notify the incarcerated individual,
verbally and in  writing,  of  such  identification  card  program.  The
department   shall  also  document  that  they  offered  to  assist  the
incarcerated individual in obtaining an identification card and if  such
incarcerated  individual  declined.  The  department shall make diligent
efforts to ensure that an incarcerated individual is  provided  with  an
identification  card, if requested, prior to or upon the release of such
individual from  an  institution  or  correctional  facility  under  the
jurisdiction of the department.
(b)  If  an identification card is obtained with the assistance of the
department for an incarcerated individual  prior  to  such  individual's
release  from the department's custody, the identification card shall be
kept in the incarcerated individual's records until such  individual  is
released   from  an  institution  or  correctional  facility  under  the
jurisdiction of the department;  upon  such  individual's  release,  the
identification card shall be provided to the individual.
5.  The  department  shall  collect data on the number of incarcerated
individuals participating in the identification card program and issue a
report on such data to the governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the
senate   and  the  speaker  of  the  assembly  annually  until  December
thirty-first, two thousand twenty-six.