New York S 5883: Establishes distinctive "Alzheimer's Awareness" license plates and provides that the funding for such be deposited in the Alzheimer's disease assistance fund

Status: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 5883

Sponsors: Andrew J. Lanza, Anthony H. Palumbo, Pamela Helming, Robert Rolison

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S05883 Summary:

BILL NOS05883 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09208

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SPONSORLANZA

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COSPNSRHELMING, PALUMBO, ROLISON

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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".

Go to top S05883 Actions:

BILL NOS05883 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

06/12/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1984

06/13/2025PASSED SENATE

06/13/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/13/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

06/01/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/01/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1465

06/01/2026PASSED SENATE

06/01/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/01/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5883

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. LANZA, HELMING, PALUMBO, ROLISON -- 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 "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

 S. 5883 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. No

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