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Senate Bill S1512

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Eliminates the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates

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2025-S1512 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-i, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3955
2013-2014: S2296
2015-2016: S2934
2017-2018: S2539
2019-2020: S2971
2021-2022: S3824
2023-2024: S1835

2025-S1512 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for distinctive license plates for gold star family members; eliminates the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates.

2025-S1512 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1512 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1512
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. ASHBY, GRIFFO -- 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 providing
   distinctive license plates for gold star family members and  eliminat-
   ing  the  registration  fee  for gold star mother and gold star family
   member distinctive license plates
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 404-i of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 chapter  277  of  the  laws of 1991 and renumbered by chapter 108 of the
 laws of 1994, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 732  of  the  laws  of
 2004 and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, is
 amended to read as follows:
   §  404-i. Distinctive plates for gold star mothers AND GOLD STAR FAMI-
 LIES.  1. Any gold star mother or the spouse of a gold  star  mother  OR
 ANY GOLD STAR PARENT OR THE SPOUSE OF A GOLD STAR PARENT, OR THE SURVIV-
 ING  SPOUSE  OF  A  FALLEN  SERVICE  MEMBER,  OR  ANY CHILD, STEP-CHILD,
 SIBLING, STEP-SIBLING, OR GRANDPARENT OF A FALLEN SERVICE MEMBER  resid-
 ing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a license plate bearing
 the  words "gold star mother" OR "GOLD STAR FAMILY", RESPECTIVELY.  If a
 distinctive plate is issued to a gold star mother OR  GOLD  STAR  FAMILY
 MEMBER  pursuant  to  this section, additional distinctive plates may be
 issued for every vehicle registered in the name of the gold star  mother
 recipient residing in this state or the spouse of such gold star mother,
 OR  THE  GOLD  STAR  FAMILY MEMBER.   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 or the spouse of
 the applicant is a gold star mother OR THE APPLICANT IS  ANY  GOLD  STAR
 PARENT OR THE SPOUSE OF A GOLD STAR PARENT, OR THE SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01813-02-5

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