New York A 9208: Establishes distinctive "Alzheimer's Awareness" license plates and provides that the funding for such be deposited in the Alzheimer's disease assistance fund

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A09208 Summary:

BILL NOA09208 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05883

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SPONSORRomero

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §404-ff, V & T L; amd §89-e, St Fin L

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Relates to establishing distinctive "Alzheimer's Awareness" license plates; provides that the funding for such be deposited in the "Alzheimer's disease assistance fund".

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BILL NOA09208 

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11/03/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9208

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 November 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
 distinctive "Alzheimer's Awareness" license plates; and to amend the
 state finance law, in relation to providing for further funding for
 the "Alzheimer's disease assistance 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 "Alzheimer's Awareness" license plates. 1. Any
 4 person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinc-
 5 tive "Alzheimer's Awareness" license plate of a design approved by the
 6 commissioner. Application for said license plate shall be filed with the
 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 Alzheimer's
 20 disease assistance fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-e of
 21 the state finance law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10042-01-5

 A. 9208 2

 1 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 89-e of the state finance law, as
 2 amended by chapter 359 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
 5 of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section six
 6 hundred twenty-nine of the tax law, revenues received pursuant to the
 7 provisions of section four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic
 8 law and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto
 9 from any other fund or source pursuant to law. For each state fiscal
 10 year, there shall be appropriated to the fund by the state, in addition
 11 to all other moneys required to be deposited into such fund, an amount
 12 equal to the amounts of monies collected and deposited into the fund
 13 pursuant to section six hundred twenty-nine of the tax law during the
 14 preceding calendar year, as certified by the comptroller. Nothing
 15 contained herein shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or
 16 bequests for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and
 17 depositing them into the fund according to law.
 18 § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
 19 the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section one of this act, shall
 20 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
 21 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
 22 dollars, which shall be