Assembly Bill A8915

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the issuance of license plates for vehicles owned by severely disabled persons

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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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2025-A8915 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-a, V & T L

2025-A8915 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the requirement of a disability for family members for the issuance of additional disabled person plates to family members of a severely disabled person.

2025-A8915 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8915
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BEEPHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the issuance
   of license plates for vehicles owned by severely disabled persons
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 1991, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   2.  Registration  of  vehicles owned by severely disabled persons. The
 commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicles, including any  van  or
 pick-up  truck  used for transporting persons with disabilities which is
 not used for commercial purposes, owned by such persons,  a  distinctive
 number  and  issue  and  deliver  in such manner as the commissioner may
 select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the
 commissioner shall prescribe and  two  number  plates,  called  disabled
 person plates. Said disabled person plates shall conform to the require-
 ments  of  section four hundred one of this [chapter] ARTICLE, but shall
 bear distinctive marks to distinguish them  from  number  plates  to  be
 issued  to other persons, qualifying under this chapter. The commission-
 er, in [his] THEIR discretion, may issue,  for  any  registration  year,
 only  one  plate  as  a set for a motor vehicle, in which event a set of
 disabled person plates for a motor vehicle shall consist of  one  plate.
 Where  a  severely  disabled  person owns more than one vehicle and such
 vehicle or vehicles is or are used by [severely disabled] members of the
 owner's family who reside with the owner, the commissioner  shall  issue
 one  set  of  plates  for  each additional vehicle used by such severely
 disabled person[, provided that such user qualifies as a severely  disa-
 bled person in the manner required by this section] OR BY FAMILY MEMBERS
 OF  THE  SEVERELY  DISABLED  PERSON  TO  TRANSPORT THE SEVERELY DISABLED
 PERSON.
   § 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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