New York S 4213: Relates to establishing distinctive "Women Veterans" license plates and the women veterans support fund

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S04213 Summary:

BILL NOS04213 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10974

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SPONSORPARKER

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COSPNSRBAILEY, COMRIE, COONEY, HELMING, MATTERA, ORTT

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §404-ff, V & T L; add §95-l, St Fin L

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Relates to establishing distinctive "Women Veterans" plates and the women veterans support fund; establishes that moneys of the fund will be used for women veteran homelessness, counseling and other programs that support women veterans.

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BILL NOS04213 

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02/03/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

04/21/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4213

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, COMRIE, COONEY, HELMING, ORTT --
 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 "Women Veterans" license plates; and to amend the state
 finance law, in relation to establishing the "women veterans support
 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 "Women Veterans" license plates. 1. Any person
 4 residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive
 5 "Women Veterans" license plate of a design approved by the commissioner.
 6 Application for said license plate shall be filed with the form and
 7 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 women veterans
 20 support fund established pursuant to section ninety-five-l of the state
 21 finance law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07831-01-5

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 1 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 95-l to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 95-l. Women veterans support fund. 1. There is hereby established in
 4 the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance and the
 5 comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "women veterans support
 6 fund".
 7 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to section
 8 four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic law, and all other
 9 moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund
 10 or source pursuant to law.
 11 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended by the New York state division
 12 of veterans' affairs' women veterans' services. These funds shall be
 13 used for women veterans homelessness, counseling and other programs that
 14 support women veterans.
 15 § 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of
 16 the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section one of this act, shall
 17 only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the depart-
 18 ment of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand
 19 dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the
 20 department of financial services to transact business in this state.
 21 Provided, however, that if