Bill Text: NY A02334 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for distinctive license plates for gold star family members; eliminates the registration fee for gold star parent and gold star family member distinctive license plates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - referred to transportation [A02334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02334-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2334

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 16, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
          distinctive license plates for gold star family members and  eliminat-
          ing  the  registration  fee  for gold star parent and gold star family
          member distinctive license plates

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 404-i of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
     2  chapter  277  of  the  laws of 1991 and renumbered by chapter 108 of the
     3  laws of 1994, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 732  of  the  laws  of
     4  2004 and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    §  404-i.  Distinctive plates for gold star [mothers] parents and gold
     7  star families.  1. Any gold star [mother] parent or the spouse of a gold
     8  star [mother]  parent, or the widow  or  widower  of  a  fallen  service
     9  member,  or  any child, step-child, brother, sister, step-brother, step-
    10  sister, or grandparent of a fallen service member residing in this state
    11  shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the  words  "gold
    12  star  [mother]  parent"  or  "gold  star  family",  respectively.   If a
    13  distinctive plate is issued to a gold star [mother] parent or gold  star
    14  family  member  pursuant  to this section, additional distinctive plates
    15  may be issued for every vehicle registered in the name of the gold  star
    16  [mother]  parent  recipient residing in this state or the spouse of such
    17  gold star [mother] parent, or the gold star family  member.  Application
    18  for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form
    19  and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    20    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    21  satisfactory  to  the  commissioner, that the applicant or the spouse of
    22  the applicant is a gold star [mother] parent or the  spouse  of  a  gold
    23  star  parent, or the widow or widower of a fallen service member, or any

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01813-01-5
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     1  child, step-child, brother, sister, step-brother, step-sister, or grand-
     2  parent of a fallen service member.
     3    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
     4  in  the  same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular
     5  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one  of  this  arti-
     6  cle],  provided,  however,  that  no  registration fee or service charge
     7  shall be charged for such plate.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    10  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    11  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    12  on or before such date.