Senate Bill S7357

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows current, active and retired military service members and reserve units of the state to qualify for distinctive license plates

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • 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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2023-S7357 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1535
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404-d, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9020
2019-2020: A5281
2021-2022: A1730

2023-S7357 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows current, active and retired military service members and reserve units of the state to qualify for distinctive license plates; allows the spouse to also qualify for such distinctive plates.

2023-S7357 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7357 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7357
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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  allowing
   retired service members to qualify for 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-d of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 chapter 486 of the laws of 1996 and subdivision 3 as amended by  chapter
 415 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
   §  404-d.  Distinctive plates for members of the organized militia and
 reserve. 1. Any CURRENT, ACTIVE OR RETIRED member of the organized mili-
 tia of the state of New York and any member of a reserve unit from  this
 state  of  any  branch  of  the armed forces of the United States or the
 spouse of any such member shall, upon request, be issued a license plate
 bearing a militiaman and the appropriate organization --  army  national
 guard,  air  national guard, state guard or naval militia, army reserve,
 marine corps reserve, air force reserve, navy  reserve  or  coast  guard
 reserve.  If  a distinctive plate is issued to a member of the organized
 militia pursuant to this section, such a distinctive plate shall not  be
 issued  to  the spouse of such member of the organized militia. Applica-
 tion for said license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such
 form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe, and shall be  veri-
 fied annually by the applicant.
   2. The distinctive plate authorized in subdivision one of this section
 shall  be  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the
 applicant or the spouse of the applicant is presently  [an]  A  CURRENT,
 active OR RETIRED member of the organized militia or reserve.
   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  an  additional one-time service charge of ten
 dollars shall be charged for such plate.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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