Bill Text: NY S00855 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; provides for the annual service charge to be deposited into the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund and the excess of four thousand dollars to be deposited to the credit of the cure childhood cancer trust fund; establishes the "cure childhood cancer trust fund".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00855 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00855-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 855 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta- tion AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing the issuance of license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establish- ing the cure childhood cancer trust 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 "Cure Childhood Cancer" plates. 1. Any person 4 residing in this state shall upon request be issued a distinctive plate 5 bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer". Application for such plates 6 shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as the 7 commissioner shall prescribe. 8 2. Any distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be 9 issued in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the 10 regular registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this 11 article provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of 12 fifty dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such annual service 13 charge shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section four 14 hundred four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor 15 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section nine- 16 ty-five-g of the state finance law, and shall be used for the 17 production, design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license 18 plates pursuant to such section ninety-five-g; provided, however, that 19 annual service charges collected in excess of four thousand dollars 20 shall be deposited to the credit of the "cure childhood cancer trust 21 fund" established pursuant to section ninety-nine-ff of the state 22 finance law and shall be used for childhood cancer research and educa- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02942-01-9S. 855 2 1 tion projects approved by the commissioner of health or to provide 2 grants to state university of New York health science centers or univer- 3 sity hospitals for the purpose of researching and promoting a cure for 4 childhood cancer, pursuant to such section ninety-nine-ff. 5 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ff to 6 read as follows: 7 § 99-ff. Cure childhood cancer trust fund. 1. There is hereby estab- 8 lished in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance 9 and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "cure childhood 10 cancer trust fund". 11 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the 12 provisions of section four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic 13 law and all other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto 14 from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this 15 section shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests 16 for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing 17 them into the fund according to law. 18 3. Monies of the fund shall be expended for pediatric cancer care, 19 treatment and wellness to include, but not be limited to physical and 20 occupational therapy, art therapy, counseling, research grants and 21 educational projects. Such funds will be expended through a grant proc- 22 ess created by and on the recommendation of the commissioner of health 23 to integrative medical facilities, state of New York health centers, 24 university hospitals or community-based not-for-profit organizations 25 that operate childhood cancer awareness and support programs. 26 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on vouchers recommended by 27 the commissioner of health, after audit and approval by the state comp- 28 troller and office of the attorney general. 29 5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure 30 that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the 31 end of that fiscal year. 32 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 33 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate- 34 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 35 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 36 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such 37 effective date.
