New York S 7763: Authorizes people who transport severely disabled persons as an eligible person to receive disabled person plates

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S07763 Summary:

BILL NOS07763 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05646

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §404-a, V & T L

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Authorizes people who transport a severely disabled person as an eligible person to receive disabled person plates; defines who qualifies as eligible persons.

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BILL NOS07763 

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05/05/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

05/27/20251ST REPORT CAL.1321

05/28/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/29/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

02/24/20261ST REPORT CAL.361

02/25/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/26/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/05/2026COMMITTED TO RULES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7763

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 authorizing
 persons who transport severely disabled persons to apply for disabled
 person plates

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
 2 chapter 181 of the laws of 1980, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 596
 3 of the laws of 1982, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 191 of the laws
 4 of 1991, subdivision 3 amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 2024,
 5 subdivision 4 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 as amended by chapter
 6 376 of the laws of 2015, subdivision 4-a as added by chapter 686 of the
 7 laws of 1994, subdivision 4-b as added by chapter 277 of the laws of
 8 2012, subdivisions 5 and 6 as renumbered by chapter 601 of the laws of
 9 1987, paragraph (c) of subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 666 of the
 10 laws of 1982, and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 332 of the laws of
 11 2000, is amended to read as follows:
 12 § 404-a. Registration of motor vehicles [of] for severely disabled
 13 persons. 1. Legislative intent. It is the sense of the legislature to
 14 facilitate the usual and special uses of the highways and other motor
 15 vehicle facilities accorded to severely disabled residents of this
 16 state. The commissioner is hereby empowered to issue to [such] eligible
 17 persons, upon their application, special motor vehicle registrations,
 18 [one] and a set of vehicle identification plates for each motor [vehi-
 19 cles] vehicle owned by [such persons] an eligible person to be used for
 20 the transportation of [such] a severely disabled person [and one set of
 21 vehicle identification plates for each motor vehicle owned by such
 22 persons and used by a severely disabled member of the owner's family].
 23 1-a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following
 24 terms shall have the following meanings:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09040-01-5

 S. 7763 2

 1 (a) "Severely disabled person" shall mean any person having any one or
 2 more of the following impairments, disabilities or conditions which are
 3 permanent in nature:
 4 (i) Has limited or no use of one or both lower limbs;
 5 (ii) Has a neuro-muscular dysfunction which severely limits mobility;
 6 (iii) Has a physical or mental impairment or condition which is other
 7 than those specified above, but is of such nature as to impose unusual
 8 hardship in utilization of public transportation facilities and such
 9 condition is certified by a physician, physician assistant or nurse
 10 practitioner, to the extent authorized by law and consistent with subdi-
 11 vision three of section sixty-nine hundred two of the education law,
 12 duly licensed to practice in this state, or, pursuant to subdivision
 13 four-a of this section, a podiatrist duly licensed to practice podiatry
 14 in this state or, pursuant to subdivision four-b of this section, an
 15 optometrist duly licensed to practice optometry in this state, as
 16 constituting an equal degree of disability (specif