Bill Text: NY S01512 | 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 mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01512 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01512-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1512

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2025
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        Introduced by Sens. ASHBY, GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed 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 mother 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 and gold star fami-
     7  lies.  1. Any gold star mother or the spouse of a gold  star  mother  or
     8  any gold star parent or the spouse of a gold star parent, or the surviv-
     9  ing  spouse  of  a  fallen  service  member,  or  any child, step-child,
    10  sibling, step-sibling, or grandparent of a fallen service member  resid-
    11  ing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing
    12  the  words "gold star mother" or "gold star family", respectively.  If a
    13  distinctive plate is issued to a gold star mother or  gold  star  family
    14  member  pursuant  to  this section, additional distinctive plates may be
    15  issued for every vehicle registered in the name of the gold star  mother
    16  recipient residing in this state or the spouse of such gold star mother,
    17  or  the  gold  star  family member.   Application for said license plate
    18  shall be filed with the commissioner in such  form  and  detail  as  the
    19  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 or the applicant is  any  gold  star
    23  parent or the spouse of a gold star parent, or the surviving spouse of a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01813-02-5
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     1  fallen  service member, or any child, step-child, sibling, step-sibling,
     2  or grandparent 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.