New York A 3198: Adds an optional section to voter registration forms to allow for email addresses

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A03198 Summary:

BILL NOA03198 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§401 & 403, V & T L; amd §186, Cor L

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Relates to fees charged for the issuance of number plates and to requiring a report on the costs of manufacturing such plates; requires the fee for a number plate not to exceed the cost of producing such plate; establishes that no additional fee shall be charged to keep a current number plate due to a design change implemented by the commissioner; requires the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision to report on the costs of manufacturing license plates.

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BILL NOA03198 

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01/23/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3198

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to fees charged
 for the issuance of number plates; and to amend the correction law, in
 relation to requiring a report on the costs of manufacturing license
 plates

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 401 of the vehicle
 2 and traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part H of chapter 59 of the
 3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 4 a. Upon filing of such application and the payment of the fee herein-
 5 after provided, the commissioner shall assign to such motor vehicle a
 6 distinctive number and, without expense to the applicant, issue and
 7 deliver in such manner as the commissioner may select to the owner a
 8 certificate of registration, in such form as the commissioner shall
 9 prescribe, and two number plates at a place within the state of New York
 10 named by the applicant in [his or her] such applicant's application. A
 11 number plate, within the meaning of this chapter, may, in the discretion
 12 of the commissioner, be a plate of a permanent nature, treated with
 13 reflectorized material according to specifications prescribed by the
 14 commissioner, and with a date tag attached to such plate or to the vehi-
 15 cle as prescribed by regulations of the commissioner indicating the
 16 validity of the plate during a certain period and the issuance of such a
 17 number plate with such date tag to a person possessing such a number
 18 plate shall be deemed the issuance of a number plate. An additional fee,
 19 not to exceed [twenty-five dollars] the actual cost of manufacturing a
 20 number plate, shall be paid to the commissioner whenever a set of
 21 reflectorized number plates is issued for any vehicle for which a regis-
 22 tration fee is normally charged except that, with respect to any number
 23 plate which is specifically requested by the applicant, such fee shall

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06271-01-5

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 1 be paid to the commissioner upon approval of such request. In the event
 2 of the loss, mutilation or destruction of any certificate of registra-
 3 tion, any number plate or set of number plates whether with or without a
 4 date tag or tags, or any date tag or set of date tags provided for in
 5 this article, the owner of a registered motor vehicle may file such
 6 statement and proof of the facts as the commissioner shall require, with
 7 a fee of three dollars, in the office of the commissioner, or, unless
 8 and until the commissioner shall otherwise direct, in the office of the
 9 agent who issued the certificate, plate, plates, tag or tags and the
 10 commissioner or [his or her] such commissioner's agent, as the case may
 11 be, shall issue a duplicate or substitute. It shall be the duty of every
 12 owner holding a certificate of registration to notify the commissioner
 13 in writing of any change of residence of such person within ten d