S3955-2011 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Eliminates the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates

the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates.

Sponsor: BALL / Co-sponsor(s): AVELLA, KENNEDY, LARKIN / Committee: FINANCE
Law Section: Vehicle and Traffic Law / Law: Amd S404-i, V & T L

S3955-2011 Actions

Mar 13, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
Jan 4, 2012: returned to senate
Jan 4, 2012: died in assembly
Jun 14, 2011: referred to transportation
Jun 14, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
Jun 14, 2011: PASSED SENATE
Mar 16, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Mar 15, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
Mar 14, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.209
Mar 10, 2011: REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

S3955-2011 Meetings

Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs: Mar 14, 2011, Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs: Mar 13, 2012

S3955-2011 Calendars

S3955-2011 Votes

VOTE: COMMITTEE VOTE: - Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs - Mar 14, 2011

Ayes (14): Ball, Flanagan, Golden, Griffo, Grisanti, Larkin, McDonald, Zeldin, Addabbo, Avella, Stewart-Cousins, Carlucci, Klein, Savino

VOTE: FLOOR VOTE: - Jun 14, 2011

Ayes (62): Adams, Addabbo, Alesi, Avella, Ball, Bonacic, Breslin, Carlucci, DeFrancisco, Diaz, Dilan, Duane, Espaillat, Farley, Flanagan, Fuschillo, Gallivan, Gianaris, Golden, Griffo, Grisanti, Hannon, Hassell-Thomps, Huntley, Johnson, Kennedy, Klein, Krueger, Kruger, Lanza, Larkin, LaValle, Libous, Little, Marcellino, Martins, Maziarz, McDonald, Montgomery, Nozzolio, O'Mara, Oppenheimer, Parker, Peralta, Perkins, Ranzenhofer, Ritchie, Rivera, Robach, Saland, Sampson, Savino, Serrano, Seward, Skelos, Smith, Squadron, Stavisky, Stewart-Cousin, Valesky, Young, Zeldin

VOTE: COMMITTEE VOTE: - Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs - Mar 13, 2012

Ayes (14): Ball, Flanagan, Golden, Griffo, Grisanti, Larkin, McDonald, Zeldin, Addabbo, Avella, Stewart-Cousins, Carlucci, Klein, Savino

S3955-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3955

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to providing
distinctive license plates for gold star family members and eliminating
the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member
distinctive license plates

PURPOSE:
To create a "Gold Star Family" license plate for widows, widowers,
gold star fathers and their spouses, children, step-children,
brothers, sisters, step-brothers, step-sisters and grandparents of a
fallen service members. Also, removes the registration fee for "Gold
Star Mother" or "Gold Star family" license plates.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 establishes a "Gold Star family" license plate and removes
the registration fee for "Gold Star Mother" and "Gold Star Family"
license plates.

Section 2 contains effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
New Yorkers have a proud history of responding to the call to serve in
our nations Armed Forces. Our nation is currently engaged in the
longest war with all volunteer forces since the American
Revolutionary War. A higher percentage of moms and dads are serving
today than in any time in recent history. Secretary of Defense Robert
M. Gates recently stated that more than 40 percent of the military
are parents and over 230,000 children have a mother or father at war.

When the nation calls these warriors to difficult and dangerous
places, our service men and women answer that call knowing that what
they do protects those that they've left behind. The families of
those who have died for our freedom deserve every effort we can
possibly make on their behalf. Giving them an opportunity to honor
their loved one with a custom license plate will serve as a powerful
reminder to everyone that drives and rides on New York's streets and
highways that military families live among us.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill in Senate.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after
it shall have become a law.

S3955-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
                                          3955
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 March 10, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BALL  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi
 ty and Military Affairs
 

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
 distinctive  license plates for gold star family members and eliminat
 ing the registration fee for gold star mother  and  gold  star  family
 member 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-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:

 

S 404-i. Distinctive plates for gold star mothers AND GOLD STAR  FAMI
 LIES.    1.  Any gold star mother or the spouse of a gold star mother OR
 ANY GOLD STAR FATHER OR THE SPOUSE OF A GOLD STAR FATHER, OR  THE  WIDOW
 OR  WIDOWER OF A FALLEN SERVICE MEMBER, OR ANY CHILD, STEP-CHILD, BROTH
 ER, SISTER,  STEP-BROTHER,  STEP-SISTER,  OR  GRANDPARENT  OF  A  FALLEN
 SERVICE  MEMBER  residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a
 license plate bearing the words "gold star mother" OR "GOLD  STAR  FAMI
 LY",  RESPECTIVELY.    If  a  distinctive plate is issued to a gold star
 mother OR GOLD STAR FAMILY MEMBER pursuant to this  section,  additional
 distinctive  plates  may  be  issued for every vehicle registered in the
 name of the gold star mother recipient residing in  this  state  or  the
 spouse of such gold star mother, OR THE GOLD STAR FAMILY MEMBER.  Appli
 cation  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 OR THE APPLICANT IS ANY GOLD STAR
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03376-01-1
        S. 3955                             2
 FATHER OR THE SPOUSE OF A GOLD STAR FATHER, OR THE WIDOW OR WIDOWER OF A
 FALLEN SERVICE MEMBER, OR ANY CHILD, STEP-CHILD, BROTHER, SISTER,  STEP
 BROTHER, STEP-SISTER, OR GRANDPARENT OF A FALLEN SERVICE 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  arti-
 cle],  provided,  however,  that  no  REGISTRATION FEE OR service charge
 shall be charged for such plate.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law, provided that effective immediately, the addition,
 amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary  for  the
 implementation  of  this  act  on  its  effective date is authorized and
 directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

S3955-2011: Eliminates the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates