New York A 8326: Relates to the registration of motor vehicles owned by the parent or guardian of a severely disabled person

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A08326 Summary:

BILL NOA08326 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07191

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSRStirpe, Sayegh, Berger, Wieder, Yeger, Manktelow, DeStefano, Tague, Giglio, Hyndman, Weprin, Fall,
 Meeks, Bendett, Burke, Kassay, Griffin, McMahon

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §404-a, V & T L

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Authorizes the parent or guardian of a severely disabled person to register a motor vehicle used for transporting a person with disabilities.

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BILL NOA08326 

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05/13/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8326

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 13, 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 the regis-
 tration of motor vehicles owned by the parent or guardian of a severe-
 ly disabled person

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

 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 and paragraph (b) of
 2 subdivision 5 of section 404-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 3 amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2015, are amended and a new subdi-
 4 vision 3-a is added to read as follows:
 5 3-a. Registration of vehicles owned by the parent or guardian of a
 6 severely disabled person. The commissioner shall assign to such motor
 7 vehicles, including any van or pick-up truck used for transporting
 8 persons with disabilities which is not used for commercial purposes and
 9 which are owned by the parent or guardian of such person a distinctive
 10 number and issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may
 11 select to the owner a certification of registration, in such form as the
 12 commissioner shall prescribe and two number plates, called disabled
 13 person passenger plates. Such disabled person passenger plates shall
 14 conform to the requirements of section four hundred one of this chapter,
 15 but shall bear distinctive marks to distinguish them from number plates
 16 to be issued to other persons, qualifying under this chapter. The
 17 commissioner, in their discretion, may issue, for any registration year,
 18 only one plate as a set for a motor vehicle, in which event a set of
 19 disabled person plates for a motor vehicle shall consist of one plate.
 20 Where the parent or guardian of a severely disabled person owns more
 21 than one vehicle and such vehicle or vehicles is or are used for trans-
 22 porting persons with disabilities, the commissioner shall issue one set
 23 of plates for each additional vehicle used by such parent or guardian of
 24 a severely disabled person.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11343-01-5

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 1 The commissioner shall issue sets of plates to such person in accord-
 2 ance with subdivision two and subdivision three-a of this section with
 3 proof of such disability of such person or such members of [his or her]
 4 such person's family certified by a physician, physician assistant or
 5 nurse practitioner, to the extent authorized by law and consistent with
 6 subdivision three of section six thousand nine hundred two of the educa-
 7 tion law, or podiatrist pursuant to subdivision four-a of this section
 8 or optometrist pursuant to subdivision four-b of this section, to the
 9 satisfaction of the commissioner who is empowered to carry out the
 10 effects of this section by formulating rules and regulations. The
 11 commissioner shall issue sets of plates to such person in accordance
 12 with subdivision three-a of this section with proof of parenthood or
 13 guardianship of a severely disabled person including but not limited to
 14 a birth certificate, foreign birth certificate, adoption decree, custody
 15 agreement, or consistent with article seventeen of the surrogate court
 16 procedure act, article seventeen-a of the surrogate court procedure act,
 17 or article eighty-three of the mental hygiene