Bill Text: NY A09972 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of congenital heart disease awareness license plates; and establishes the congenital heart disease research and education fund.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A09972 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09972-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9972
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 2, 2018
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MAYER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
          the issuance of congenital heart disease awareness license plates; and
          to  amend  the  state  finance  law,  in  relation to establishing the
          congenital heart disease research and education 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-ee to read as follows:
     3    § 404-ee. Congenital heart disease awareness license  plates.  1.  Any
     4  person  residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinc-
     5  tive license plate in support of congenital heart disease awareness  and
     6  research bearing the phrase "Congenital Heart Disease Awareness" and any
     7  other phrases and design approved by the commissioner.
     8    2.  An  application  for  such  license  plate shall be filed with the
     9  commissioner  in  such  form  and  detail  as  the  commissioner   shall
    10  prescribe.
    11    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    12  in  the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
    13  lar registration fee prescribed by section  four  hundred  one  of  this
    14  article;  provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
    15  twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such  plates.  Such  additional
    16  annual service charge shall be deposited to the credit of the congenital
    17  heart  disease  research  and  education  fund  established  pursuant to
    18  section ninety-nine-bb of the state finance law and shall  be  used  for
    19  the purposes specified in such section.
    20    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-bb to
    21  read as follows:
    22    §  99-bb.  Congenital  heart  disease  research and education fund. 1.
    23  There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner  of
    24  taxation  and  finance  and  the  comptroller  a fund to be known as the
    25  "congenital heart disease research and education fund".
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13656-01-7
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     1    2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received  pursuant  to  the
     2  provisions  of  section  four hundred four-ee of the vehicle and traffic
     3  law and all other moneys appropriated, credited or  transferred  thereto
     4  from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this
     5  section shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests
     6  for  the  purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing
     7  them into the fund according to law.
     8    3. Moneys of the fund shall be  expended  only  for  congenital  heart
     9  disease  research  projects  approved by the department of health in New
    10  York state. As used in this section, the term "congenital heart  disease
    11  research  and  education  projects"  means  scientific research into the
    12  causes, prevention, screening, treatment and cure  of  congenital  heart
    13  disease.
    14    4.  Moneys  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
    15  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  commissioner
    16  of health.
    17    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.