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Senate Bill S2035

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients

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2025-S2035 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4657
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-p, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3009
2015-2016: S2966
2017-2018: S706
2019-2020: S123
2021-2022: S2700
2023-2024: S653, A7565

2025-S2035 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients; removes the word "congressional" from distinctive plates; provides for the reissuance of plates to persons assigned distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients.

2025-S2035 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2035 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2035
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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  distinctive
   plates for 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 145 of the laws of 2023, 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".   If
 a distinctive plate is issued to a [congressional] medal of honor recip-
 ient  pursuant  to  this  section,  additional distinctive plates may be
 issued for every vehicle registered in the name of  the  [congressional]
 medal  of  honor  recipient residing in this state or the spouse of such
 [congressional] medal of honor recipient. 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 [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.
   § 2. Distinctive plates issued pursuant to section 404-p of the  vehi-
 cle  and  traffic  law  prior  to  the amendment of such section made by
 section one of this act shall be reissued to any  person  assigned  such
 plate  upon  such  person's  request.  No fee or service charge shall be
 charged for the  reissuance  of  such  plate.  Provided,  however,  that
 notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  section  one  of this act, nothing
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05594-01-5

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