Bill Text: NY S00123 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients; removes the word "congressional" from distinctive plates; provides for the reissuance of plates to persons assigned distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-22 - referred to insurance [S00123 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00123-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           123
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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  distinctive
          plates for medal of honor recipients
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
     2  chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 415
     3  of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 404-p. Distinctive plates for [congressional] medal of honor recipi-
     5  ents.  1.  Any [congressional] medal of honor recipient residing in this
     6  state shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing  the  words
     7  "[congressional]  medal  of  honor".  Application for said license plate
     8  shall be filed with the commissioner in such  form  and  detail  as  the
     9  commissioner shall prescribe.
    10    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    11  satisfactory  to the commissioner, that the applicant is a [congression-
    12  al] medal of honor recipient.
    13    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    14  in the same manner as other number plates, provided,  however,  that  no
    15  registration fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate.
    16    §  2. Distinctive plates issued pursuant to section 404-p of the vehi-
    17  cle and traffic law prior to the  amendment  of  such  section  made  by
    18  section  one  of  this act shall be reissued to any person assigned such
    19  plate upon such person's request. No fee  or  service  charge  shall  be
    20  charged  for  the  reissuance  of  such  plate.  Provided, however, that
    21  notwithstanding the provisions of  section  one  of  this  act,  nothing
    22  contained in this act shall be deemed to invalidate "Congressional Medal
    23  of  Honor" distinctive license plates issued prior to the effective date
    24  of this act.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    26  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02371-01-9