Bill Text: NY S08102 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the creation of a 9-8-8 license plate in support of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08102 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08102-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8102

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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  authorizing
          the creation of a 9-8-8 license plate

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

     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 404-ff to read as follows:
     3    §  404-ff.  9-8-8 license plates. 1. Any person residing in this state
     4  shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive license plate of  a  design
     5  developed  and  approved  by  the  commissioner in consultation with the
     6  commissioner of the office of mental health  in  support  of  the  9-8-8
     7  suicide  prevention and mental health crisis hotline system. Application
     8  for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form
     9  and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    10    2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    11  in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
    12  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article;
    13  provided,  however,  that an additional annual service charge of twenty-
    14  five dollars shall be charged for such plates. Provided,  however,  that
    15  one  year  after the effective date of this section, funds in the amount
    16  of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be available,  shall
    17  be  allocated  to  the  department  to  offset costs associated with the
    18  production of such license plates.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13617-01-3