Bill Text: NY S01947 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates the registration fees charged for the issuance of volunteer firefighter distinctive license plates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01947 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01947-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1947

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens. TEDISCO, RHOADS -- 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 the issuance
          of distinctive license plates to volunteer firefighters

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 404-b of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 277 of the laws of 1991, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
     5  in  the  same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular
     6  registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this  chapter
     7  and  an  initial  one time service charge of fifteen dollars], provided,
     8  however, that  no  registration fee or service charge shall  be  charged
     9  for such plate.
    10    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 404 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    11  amended by section 21 of part G of chapter 59 of the laws  of  2009,  is
    12  amended to read as follows:
    13    1.  The  commissioner  may  issue  special number plates to applicants
    14  therefor in the same manner as other number plates are  issued  pursuant
    15  to  this  article.  Such special number plates shall be issued only upon
    16  payment of an annual service charge of thirty-one  dollars  and  twenty-
    17  five  cents  in  addition  to the regular fee prescribed by section four
    18  hundred one of this article. Application for special number plates shall
    19  be made in accordance with regulations promulgated by  the  commissioner
    20  with  respect  to  issuance of such number plates. Provided, however, in
    21  lieu of the annual fee specified herein, the commissioner may  establish
    22  specific  categories  of plates for which an annual fee of not less than
    23  eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents nor more than thirty-one dollars
    24  and twenty-five cents may be charged subject  to  the  approval  of  the
    25  director  of  the  division  of  the budget.   Notwithstanding any other

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05379-01-5
        S. 1947                             2

     1  provision of this section, the annual service charge shall not apply  to
     2  the issuance of special number plates to volunteer firefighters pursuant
     3  to  section  four  hundred  four-b  of this article. Notwithstanding any
     4  inconsistent provision of this section, the difference collected between
     5  the  special  plates fee or service charge set forth in this subdivision
     6  in effect on and after  September  first,  two  thousand  nine  and  the
     7  special  plates  fee  or service charge set forth in this subdivision in
     8  effect prior to such date shall be deposited to the credit of the  dedi-
     9  cated highway and bridge trust fund.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.