Bill Text: NY S05521 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates to the spouse of a congressional medal of honor recipient, and the transfer of distinctive license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients who are now deceased to their surviving spouse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3305B [S05521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05521-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5521--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  distinctive
          license plates issued to congressional 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. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "Sergeant
     2  Gary Beikirch Memorial Act".
     3    § 2. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter
     4  486  of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 415 of the
     5  laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 404-p. Distinctive plates for congressional medal of  honor  recipi-
     7  ents.  1.  Any  congressional  medal of honor recipient residing in this
     8  state or the spouse of any   such  recipient  shall,  upon  request,  be
     9  issued a license plate bearing the words "congressional medal of honor".
    10  If  a  distinctive  plate  is  issued  to a congressional medal of honor
    11  recipient pursuant to this section, additional distinctive plates may be
    12  issued for every vehicle registered in the  name  of  the  congressional
    13  medal  of  honor  recipient residing in this state or the spouse of such
    14  congressional medal of honor recipient.  Application  for  said  license
    15  plate  shall  be  filed with the commissioner in such form and detail as
    16  the commissioner shall prescribe.
    17    2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
    18  satisfactory to the commissioner, that the applicant or  the  spouse  of
    19  the applicant is a congressional medal of honor recipient.
    20    3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
    21  in  the  same  manner as other number plates, provided, however, that no
    22  registration fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02686-06-3