New York S 1513: Eliminates registration fees for distinctive plates for gold star mothers

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

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 1513

Sponsors: Jake Ashby, Joseph A. Griffo

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S01513 Summary:

BILL NOS01513A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORASHBY

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Amd §§404-i & 401, V & T L

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Eliminates registration fees for distinctive plates for gold star mothers.

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01/10/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

12/19/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

12/19/2025PRINT NUMBER 1513A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1513--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 10, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. ASHBY, GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to eliminating
 registration fees for distinctive plates for gold star mothers

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 404-i of the vehicle and traffic
 2 law, as amended by chapter 486 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
 3 as follows:
 4 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
 5 in the same manner as other number plates [upon payment of the regular
 6 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this arti-
 7 cle], provided, however, that no fee or service charge shall be charged
 8 for such plate.
 9 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law is
 10 amended by adding a new paragraph b-2 to read as follows:
 11 b-2. The provisions of this article with respect to the fees for a
 12 gold star family license plate, including such plates under section four
 13 hundred four-i of this title, shall not incur any registration fee or
 14 service charge.
 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04485-03-5

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