New York S 5894: Establishes distinctive "POW-MIA" license plates and establishes the "POW-MIA awareness fund"

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S05894 Summary:

BILL NOS05894 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04125

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SPONSORLANZA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §404-ff, V & T L; add §97-ccc, St Fin L

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Establishes distinctive "POW-MIA" license plates; establishes the "POW-MIA awareness fund" to fund POW-MIA public education and awareness campaigns and veteran services by Rolling Thunder New York chapters and upon approval by the state director of veterans' services.

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BILL NOS05894 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5894

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 establishing
 distinctive "POW-MIA" license plates; and to amend the state finance
 law, in relation to establishing the "POW-MIA awareness fund"

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

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 404-ff to read as follows:
 3 § 404-ff. Distinctive "POW-MIA" license plates. 1. Any person residing
 4 in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive "POW-MIA"
 5 motor vehicle or motorcycle license plate of a design approved by the
 6 commissioner. Application for said license plate shall be filed in such
 7 form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
 8 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
 9 in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
 10 lar registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
 11 article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
 12 twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such additional
 13 service charge shall be deposited pursuant to section four hundred four-
 14 oo of this article to the credit of the department of motor vehicles
 15 distinctive plate development fund, established by section ninety-five-g
 16 of the state finance law, and shall be used for the production, design,
 17 advertising and marketing of distinctive number plates; provided, howev-
 18 er, that additional annual service charges collected in excess of six
 19 thousand dollars shall be deposited to the credit of the POW-MIA aware-
 20 ness fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-ccc of the state
 21 finance law.
 22 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 97-ccc
 23 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03650-01-5

 S. 5894 2

 1 § 97-ccc. POW-MIA awareness fund. 1. There is hereby established in
 2 the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance and the
 3 state comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "POW-MIA awareness
 4 fund".
 5 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to section
 6 four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic law, and all other
 7 moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund
 8 or source pursuant to law.
 9 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only for POW-MIA public educa-
 10 tion and awareness campaigns and veteran services by Rolling Thunder New
 11 York chapters, which are approved by the New York state division of
 12 veterans' services.
 13 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
 14 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the state director
 15 of veterans' services.
 16 § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
 17 the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section one of this act, shall
 18 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
 19 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
 20 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
 21 department of financial service