New York A 3210: Authorizes the creation of a distinctive brain tumor awareness license plate; creates the brain tumor research and support fund

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A03210 Summary:

BILL NOA03210A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLunsford

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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

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Authorizes the creation of a distinctive brain tumor awareness license plate; creates the brain tumor research and support fund; provides that moneys of the brain tumor research and support fund may be expended to offset costs associated with medicaid fee for service coverage of tumor treating fields therapy.

Go to top A03210 Actions:

BILL NOA03210A

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01/23/2025referred to transportation

03/13/2025amend (t) and recommit to transportation

03/13/2025print number 3210a

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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Go to topA03210 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3210--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee 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 authorizing
 the creation of a brain tumor awareness license plate; and to amend
 the state finance law, in relation to creating the brain tumor
 research and 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 brain tumor awareness license plates. 1. Any
 4 person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinc-
 5 tive license plate in support of brain tumor awareness and research
 6 bearing the phrase "Brain Tumor Awareness". Applications for said
 7 license plate shall be filed with the commissioner in such form and
 8 detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
 9 2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
 10 in the same manner as other number plates upon payment of the regular
 11 registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article;
 12 provided, however, that an additional service charge of twenty-five
 13 dollars shall be charged for such plates.
 14 3. Each twenty-five dollars received as the annual service charge
 15 under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the "brain tumor
 16 research and support fund" established pursuant to section ninety-nine-
 17 ss of the state finance law and shall be used to fund research and
 18 support programs undertaken pursuant to section ninety-nine-ss of the
 19 state finance law.
 20 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ss to
 21 read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04394-02-5

 A. 3210--A 2

 1 § 99-ss. Brain tumor research and support fund. 1. There is hereby
 2 established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and
 3 finance and the comptroller a fund to be known as the "brain tumor
 4 research and support fund".
 5 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to
 6 section four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic law, and all
 7 other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any
 8 other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section
 9 shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the
 10 purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
 11 the fund according to law.
 12 3. On or before the first day of February each year, the comptroller
 13 shall certify to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speak-
 14 er of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair of
 15 the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited in
 16 the brain tumor research and support fund during the preceding calendar
 17 year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section four hundred
 18 four-ff of the vehicle and traffic law and from grants, gifts and
 19 bequests.
 20 4. On or before the first day of Februa