Bill Text: NY S00480 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates additional application fees and annual fees for special license plates issued to veterans of the armed forces of the United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00480-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           480

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. OBERACKER, ASHBY, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATT-
          ERA,  MURRAY,  ORTT,  RHOADS,  ROLISON, WEIK -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
          portation

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to eliminating
          additional fees for special license plates issued to veterans

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1-a of section 404 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 105 of the laws of 2017, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    1-a.  The  commissioner  may issue special number plates to applicants
     5  who are members of veterans organizations in the same  manner  as  other
     6  number  plates  are issued pursuant to this article. Such special number
     7  plates shall be issued [only] upon [(a)] payment of [a one-time  service
     8  charge  of  ten  dollars  in  addition  to] the regular registration fee
     9  prescribed by section four  hundred  one  of  this  article,  and  [(b)]
    10  submission  of  proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the appli-
    11  cant is presently a member of the veterans organization for  which  such
    12  plate  is  requested.  Such membership shall be verified annually by the
    13  applicant. Application for such plates shall be made in accordance  with
    14  regulations promulgated by the commissioner with respect to the issuance
    15  of  such  plates. Provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
    16  be deemed to supersede the provisions of section  four  hundred  four-d,
    17  four  hundred  four-e,  four  hundred  four-h, four hundred four-i, four
    18  hundred four-j, four hundred four-k, four hundred four-p,  four  hundred
    19  four-aa, or four hundred four-dd of this article.
    20    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 404-h of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    21  amended  by  chapter  415  of  the  laws  of 2001, is amended to read as
    22  follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01829-01-5
        S. 480                              2

     1    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
     2  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
     3  registration  fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article
     4  [provided, however, that an additional one-time service  charge  of  ten
     5  dollars shall be charged for such plate].
     6    § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 404-j of the vehicle and traffic law, as
     7  amended  by  chapter  415  of  the  laws  of 2001, is amended to read as
     8  follows:
     9    4. Fee. A special plate  and  registration  issued  pursuant  to  this
    10  section  shall  be  issued  upon payment of the regular registration fee
    11  prescribed by section four hundred one of this article [provided, howev-
    12  er, that an additional one-time service charge of ten dollars  shall  be
    13  charged for such plate].
    14    § 4. Subdivision 3 of section 404-v of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    15  amended  by  chapter  490  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
    16  follows:
    17    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    18  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    19  registration  fee  prescribed  by section four hundred one of this arti-
    20  cle[, provided, however, that an additional one-time service  charge  of
    21  ten dollars shall be charged for such plate. Provided, however, that one
    22  year  after  the  effective  date of this section funds in the amount of
    23  five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be available, shall  be
    24  allocated  from  such funds to the department to offset costs associated
    25  with the production of such license plates].
    26    § 5. Subdivision 3 of section 404-w of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    27  added by chapter 105 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    28    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    29  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    30  registration  fee  prescribed  by section four hundred one of this arti-
    31  cle[, provided, however, that an additional one-time service  charge  of
    32  ten dollars shall be charged for such plate].
    33    § 6. Subdivision 4 of section 404-w of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    34  added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    35    4. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    36  in  the  same  manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
    37  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this  article
    38  [provided,  however,  that  an additional one time service charge of ten
    39  dollars shall be charged for such plate].
    40    § 7. Subdivision 3 of section 404-aa of the vehicle and  traffic  law,
    41  as  added  by  chapter  103  of  the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
    42  follows:
    43    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    44  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    45  registration  fee  prescribed  by section four hundred one of this arti-
    46  cle[; provided, however, that an additional one-time service  charge  of
    47  ten dollars shall be charged for such plate].
    48    §  8. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    49  the date on which it shall have become a law.