Assembly Bill A4657

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A4657 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2035
Current Committee:
Assembly 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: A7565, S653

2025-A4657 (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-A4657 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4657
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred 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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