Bill Text: NY A07255 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7255 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Changes the "Life Pass It On" license plate to the "Donate Life New York State" and "Be an Organ & Tissue Donor".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A07255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07255-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7255--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 29, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the
         Committee  on  Transportation  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the distinc-
         tive gift of life license plates
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 404-u of the vehicle and traffic
    2  law, as added by chapter 415 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    1.  Any  person  residing in this state shall upon request be issued a
    5  distinctive license plate bearing the words ["Life Pass It On"]  "DONATE
    6  LIFE  NEW  YORK STATE" AND "BE AN ORGAN & TISSUE DONOR". Application for
    7  said license plates shall be filed with the commissioner  in  such  form
    8  and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    9    S  2. Distinctive plates issued pursuant to section 404-u of the vehi-
   10  cle and traffic law prior to the  amendment  of  such  section  made  by
   11  section  one  of  this act shall be reissued to any person assigned such
   12  plate upon such person's request. No fee  or  service  charge  shall  be
   13  charged  for  the  reissuance  of  such  plate.  Provided, however, that
   14  notwithstanding the provisions of  section  one  of  this  act,  nothing
   15  contained  in  this  act shall be deemed to invalidate "Life Pass it On"
   16  distinctive license plates issued prior to the effective  date  of  this
   17  act.
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   19  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   20  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
   21  necessary for the implementation of this act on its  effective  date  is
   22  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and completed on or before such
   23  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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