Bill Text: NY S01210 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Creates the mental illness anti-stigma license plate and the mental illness anti-stigma fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-21 - SIGNED CHAP.228 [S01210 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01210-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1210--C Cal. No. 1040 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, amended on second report, ordered to a third read- ing, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing the creation of mental illness anti-stigma license plates; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to the mental illness anti- stigma 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-dd to read as follows: 3 § 404-dd. Mental illness anti-stigma license plates. 1. Any person 4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive 5 license plate of a design developed and approved by the commissioner in 6 consultation with the commissioner of the office of mental health in 7 support of ending the stigma related to mental illness research bearing 8 the phrase "Healthy mind, healthy New York". Application for said 9 license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and 10 detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. 11 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued 12 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular 13 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article; 14 provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of twenty- 15 five dollars shall be charged for such plates. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04836-08-7S. 1210--C 2 1 3. Each twenty-five dollars received as the annual service charge 2 under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the "mental 3 illness anti-stigma fund" established pursuant to section ninety-five-h 4 of the state finance law and shall be used for the purpose of providing 5 grants to organizations dedicated to eliminating the stigma attached to 6 mental illness and persons with mental health needs pursuant to section 7 7.47 of the mental hygiene law. 8 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 95-h of the state finance law, as added 9 by chapter 422 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 10 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the 11 provisions of section six hundred twenty-nine-a of the tax law, section 12 four hundred four-dd of the vehicle and traffic law, all revenues 13 received pursuant to appropriations by the legislature, and all moneys 14 appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or 15 source pursuant to law. No moneys credited to such fund pursuant to 16 section six hundred twenty-nine-a of the tax law shall be deemed to 17 authorize the reduction of the amount of monies otherwise appropriated 18 by the state for the purpose of eliminating the stigma attached to 19 mental illness. 20 § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-dd of 21 the vehicle and traffic law shall only be designed, produced and issued 22 upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond 23 in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a 24 surety company authorized by the department of financial services to 25 transact business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commis- 26 sioner of motor vehicles shall have received prior to plate design, 27 production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive 28 plate together with the additional annual service charge applicable to 29 each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond 30 shall be required. All service charges collected pursuant to this 31 section shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo 32 of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor 33 vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g 34 of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, 35 advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance 36 with such section 95-g. 37 2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which 38 distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two 39 hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant 40 to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of 41 such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles 42 shall be entitled to recover against the bond in an amount proportionate 43 to such shortfall. 44 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 45 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that section three of 46 this act shall take effect immediately; and provided further, however 47 that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any 48 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its 49 effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on 50 or before such effective date.
