Bill Text: NY A05251 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a distinctive "Pink Ribbon" license plate for which there is an additional annual service charge of $25; establishes the "breast cancer education and support fund"; provides for disbursement of monies in such fund for community-based breast cancer education and support programs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A05251 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A05251-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5251 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, BENEDETTO, GALEF, COLTON, BARRETT, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, COOK, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH, J. RIVERA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing distinctive "Pink Ribbon" plates; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the "breast cancer education and support fund" 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. Distinctive "Pink Ribbon" license plates. 1. Any person 4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive 5 "Pink Ribbon" license plate of a design approved by the commissioner. 6 Application for said license plate shall be filed with the form and 7 detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 8 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 9 in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu- 10 lar registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this 11 article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of 12 twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such additional 13 service charge shall be deposited pursuant to section four hundred four- 14 oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor vehicles 15 distinctive plate development fund, established by section ninety-five-g 16 of the state finance law, and shall be used for the production, design, 17 advertising and marketing of distinctive number plates; provided, howev- 18 er, that additional annual service charges collected in excess of six 19 thousand dollars shall be deposited to the credit of the breast cancer 20 education and support fund established pursuant to section ninety-five-j 21 of the state finance law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02530-01-1A. 5251 2 1 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 95-j to 2 read as follows: 3 § 95-j. Breast cancer education and support fund. 1. There is hereby 4 established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and 5 finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "breast 6 cancer education and support fund". 7 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to section 8 four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic law, and all other 9 moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund 10 or source pursuant to law. 11 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended by the department for breast 12 cancer education and support projects and grants to community-based 13 organizations pursuant to section twenty-four hundred six-a of the 14 public health law. 15 § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of 16 the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall 17 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart- 18 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand 19 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the 20 department of financial services to transact business in this state. 21 Provided, however, that if the commissioner shall have received prior to 22 the plate design, production and issuance at least two hundred orders 23 for such distinctive plate together with the additional annual service 24 charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no 25 such surety bond shall be required. All such service charges shall be 26 deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle 27 and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor vehicles 28 distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g of the 29 state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, adver- 30 tising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance with 31 such section 95-g. 32 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 33 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 34 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 35 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 36 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles 37 shall be entitled to recover against the bond an amount proportionate to 38 such shortfall. 39 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 40 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that section three of 41 this act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately, the 42 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 43 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 44 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
