N.Y. Correction Law § 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.