New York S 1798: Issues distinctive epilepsy awareness license plates and establishes an epilepsy awareness fund and an epilepsy research and education program

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S01798 Summary:

BILL NOS01798 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04152

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SPONSORPERSAUD

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §404-ff, V & T L; add §99-ss, St Fin L; add Art 27-CCCC §2748, Pub Health L

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Issues distinctive epilepsy awareness license plates; establishes an epilepsy awareness fund and an epilepsy research and education program.

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BILL NOS01798 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

03/18/20251ST REPORT CAL.578

03/19/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/20/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/27/2025PASSED SENATE

03/27/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/27/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1798

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- 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, the state finance law, and
 the public health law, in relation to issuing distinctive epilepsy
 awareness license plates and establishing an epilepsy awareness fund
 and an epilepsy research and education program

 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 "epilepsy awareness" license plates. 1. Any
 4 person residing in this state shall upon request be issued a distinctive
 5 "epilepsy awareness" license plate of a design approved by the commis-
 6 sioner. Application for said license plate shall be filed with the
 7 commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
 8 prescribe.
 9 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
 10 in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
 11 lar registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
 12 article provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
 13 twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plates. All monies
 14 received as the annual service charge under this section shall be depos-
 15 ited to the credit of the New York state "epilepsy awareness fund"
 16 established pursuant to section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law
 17 and shall be used for research and education programs undertaken pursu-
 18 ant to article twenty-seven-CCCC of the public health law. Provided,
 19 however that one year after the effective date of this section funds in
 20 the amount of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be avail-
 21 able, shall be allocated to the department to offset costs associated
 22 with the production of such license plates.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05055-01-5

 S. 1798 2

 1 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ss to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 99-ss. The New York state "epilepsy awareness fund". 1. There is
 4 hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation
 5 and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the New
 6 York state "epilepsy awareness fund".
 7 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
 8 provisions of section four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic
 9 law and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto
 10 from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained herein
 11 shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the
 12 purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
 13 the fund according to law.
 14 3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for epilepsy research and
 15 education programs. As used in this section, "epilepsy research and
 16 education programs" means scientific research or educational programs
 17 which, pursuant to article twenty-seven-CCCC of the public health law,
 18 are approved by