Bill Text: NY S00653 | 2023-2024 | 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 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-05 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S00653 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00653-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 653 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 5, 2023 ___________ 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-12al] 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. LBD03403-01-3
