Assembly Bill A10251A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to distinctive license plates issued to congressional medal of honor recipients

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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Bill Amendments

2021-A10251 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9015
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-p, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3305, S5521

2021-A10251 - Summary

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.

2021-A10251 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10251
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Clark) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to transferring
   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:
 
   Section 1. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
 chapter  486 of the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision
 4 to read as follows:
   4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY,  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER  SHALL  TRANSFER  A  DISTINCTIVE  PLATE  ISSUED  PURSUANT TO THIS
 SECTION TO THE NEXT OF KIN OF A DECEASED CONGRESSIONAL  MEDAL  OF  HONOR
 RECIPIENT IF SUCH NEXT OF KIN SO REQUESTS WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS
 FOLLOWING  THE  DEATH OF SUCH CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT, OR
 WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION
 WHERE SUCH CONGRESSIONAL  MEDAL  OF  HONOR  RECIPIENT  PREDECEASED  SUCH
 EFFECTIVE  DATE.  AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION "NEXT OF KIN" SHALL MEAN A
 PERSON'S CLOSEST LIVING BLOOD RELATIVE,  INCLUDING  SPOUSE  AND  ADOPTED
 FAMILY  MEMBERS.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL PROMULGATE ANY RULES OR REGU-
 LATIONS NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15155-01-2



              

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2021-A10251A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9015
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-p, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3305, S5521

2021-A10251A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2021-A10251A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10251--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Clark,
   Jensen) -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Transportation
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
 chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 415
 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
   §  404-p.  Distinctive plates for congressional medal of honor recipi-
 ents. 1. Any congressional medal of honor  recipient  residing  in  this
 state,  OR  THE  SPOUSE OF ANY   SUCH RECIPIENT, shall, upon request, be
 issued a license plate bearing the words "congressional medal of honor".
 Application for said license plate shall be filed with the  commissioner
 in such form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
   2. The distinctive plate authorized herein shall be issued upon proof,
 satisfactory  to the commissioner, that the applicant is a congressional
 medal of honor recipient.
   3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
 in the same manner as other number plates, provided,  however,  that  no
 registration  fee or service charge shall be charged for such plate.  NO
 REGISTRATION FEE OR SERVICE CHARGE SHALL BE CHARGED  FOR  PLATES  TRANS-
 FERRED  TO A SURVIVING SPOUSE, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION
 FOUR OF THIS SECTION.
   4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY,  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER  SHALL  TRANSFER  A  DISTINCTIVE  PLATE  ISSUED  PURSUANT TO THIS
 SECTION TO THE SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A  DECEASED  CONGRESSIONAL  MEDAL  OF
 HONOR  RECIPIENT IF SUCH SURVIVING SPOUSE SO REQUESTS WITHIN ONE HUNDRED
 EIGHTY DAYS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF SUCH  CONGRESSIONAL  MEDAL  OF  HONOR
 RECIPIENT,  OR  WITHIN  ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION WHERE  SUCH  CONGRESSIONAL  MEDAL  OF  HONOR  RECIPIENT
 PREDECEASED  SUCH EFFECTIVE DATE.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE ANY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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