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Senate Bill S7038

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to issuance of keepsake plates for gold star mothers

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2025-S7038 (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: S5693
2013-2014: S3554
2015-2016: S4958
2017-2018: S2538
2019-2020: S2972
2021-2022: S3823
2023-2024: S1930

2025-S7038 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to distinctive license plates issued to gold star mothers; permits gold star mothers to retain one keepsake plate as a commemorative item after distinctive plates are surrendered.

2025-S7038 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7038 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7038
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO,  HELMING, LANZA -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to keepsake
   plates for gold star mothers
 
   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 is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. UPON THE SURRENDER OF A SET OF DISTINCTIVE PLATES  ISSUED  PURSUANT
 TO  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF THIS SECTION, THE GOLD STAR MOTHER TO WHOM SUCH
 PLATES WERE ISSUED SHALL BE ENTITLED TO BE ISSUED A KEEPSAKE  PLATE  FOR
 COMMEMORATIVE PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR DISPLAY ON ANY MOTOR VEHICLE. IN
 THE EVENT THAT A GOLD STAR MOTHER TO WHOM DISTINCTIVE PLATES WERE ISSUED
 PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION HAS SURRENDERED BOTH PLATES
 OF THE SET OF SUCH DISTINCTIVE PLATES, THEN THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, UPON
 REQUEST OF, AND AT NO COST TO SUCH GOLD STAR MOTHER, ISSUE  AND  PROVIDE
 TO  SUCH  GOLD  STAR  MOTHER ONE KEEPSAKE PLATE. KEEPSAKE PLATES ARE FOR
 COMMEMORATIVE PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR DISPLAY ON ANY MOTOR VEHICLE AND
 AS SUCH SHALL DIFFER IN  SIZE  FROM  AND  CANNOT  BE  MISTAKEN  FOR  THE
 DISTINCTIVE PLATES ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11404-01-5

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