Bill Text: NY S04086 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the elimination of fees and renewal fees associated with the issuance of distinctive license plates for purple heart recipients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-06 - referred to transportation [S04086 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04086-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4086--A
            Cal. No. 471
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens. O'MARA, BONACIC, JACOBS, LARKIN, MARCHIONE -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Transportation -- reported favorably from said committee,
          ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
          by  Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered,
          restored to third reading, amended and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining
          its place in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the elimi-
          nation of any fees associated with the distinctive license plates  for
          purple heart recipients
          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-e of the vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this  section  to  a  purple
     5  heart  recipient  shall  be  [issued  in the same manner as other number
     6  plates upon] exempt from the payment of  the  regular  registration  fee
     7  prescribed  by  section  four  hundred  one  of this article, [provided,
     8  however, that] and no service charge shall be charged  for  such  plate.
     9  Furthermore,  upon  the issuance of a distinctive plate pursuant to this
    10  section, such purple heart recipient shall be exempt from the payment of
    11  any fees relating to the renewal thereof as prescribed by  section  four
    12  hundred one of this article.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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