New York Consolidated Laws, Correction Law - COR § 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.

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.