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Senate Bill S7276

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for distinctive plates for gold star families

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2025-S7276 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2025-S7276 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for distinctive plates for gold star families, including gold star parents, as defined in 10 USC 1126, or children of a gold star parent, and their spouses.

2025-S7276 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7276 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7276
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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
   for distinctive plates for gold star families
 
   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] FAMILIES.  1.  Any
 gold  star  [mother  or  the  spouse  of  a gold star mother] PARENT, AS
 DEFINED IN 10 USC 1126, OR A CHILD OF A GOLD  STAR  PARENT  residing  in
 this  state  shall,  upon request, be issued a license plate bearing the
 words "gold star [mother] FAMILY MEMBER".   If a  distinctive  plate  is
 issued  to  a gold star [mother] FAMILY MEMBER pursuant to this section,
 additional distinctive plates may be issued for every vehicle registered
 in the name of the gold star [mother] FAMILY MEMBER  recipient  residing
 in  this  state  or the spouse of such gold star [mother] 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] FAMILY MEMBER.
   3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment  of  the  regular
 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article,
 provided,  however,  that  no  service  charge shall be charged for such
 plate.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11317-01-5
 S. 7276                             2

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