What's happening
This bill creates a "Pink Ribbon" license plate in New York, with extra fees funding breast cancer education and support.
Why it matters
Directs substantial funding to breast cancer education and support. By channeling all annual service charges above $6,000 from the "Pink Ribbon" plate fees into a new Breast Cancer Education and Support Fund, this bill creates a dedicated revenue stream for education initiatives and grants to community-based organizations working on breast cancer issues.
Ensures public demand before launching the plate. The requirement for either a $6,000 surety bond or at least 200 pre-orders before the plate is produced means taxpayer money and state resources will only be used if there’s proven interest, reducing financial risk for the state.
Supports local, community-based responses. The bill specifies that money from the fund will be used for projects and grants to community organizations, which may help ensure the support provided is tailored to local needs and reaches those most affected by breast cancer.
Raises public awareness through visible advocacy. The creation and display of the "Pink Ribbon" license plates can contribute to ongoing public awareness and destigmatization of breast cancer, encouraging conversations and potentially leading to increased screening and early detection.
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Create Pink Ribbon Plates
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Sponsors
9 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Companion bill
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Pink Ribbon License Plates
In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3633
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, BENEDETTO, SCHIMMINGER, DenDEKKER, GALEF, JAFFEE, COLTON, BARRETT, MONTESANO, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, COOK, CROUCH, FINCH, HAWLEY, KOLB, McDONOUGH, MOSLEY, RIVERA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing distinctive "Pink Ribbon" plates; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the "breast cancer education and support fund"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 404-ff to read as follows:
§ 404-ff. Distinctive "Pink Ribbon" license plates. 1. Any person residing in this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive "Pink Ribbon" license plate of a design approved by the commissioner. Application for said license plate shall be filed with the form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
2. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regular registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this article, provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plate. Such additional service charge shall be deposited pursuant to section four hundred fouroo of this article to the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund, established by section ninety-five-g of the state finance law, and shall be used for the production, design, advertising and marketing of distinctive number plates; provided, however, that additional annual service charges collected in excess of six thousand dollars shall be deposited to the credit of the breast cancer
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education and support fund established pursuant to section ninety-five-j of the state finance law.
§ 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 95-j to read as follows:
§ 95-j. Breast cancer education and support fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "breast cancer education and support fund".
2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected pursuant to section four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic law, and all other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.
3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended by the department for breast cancer education and support projects and grants to community-based organizations pursuant to section twenty-four hundred six-a of the public health law.
§ 3. 1. A distinctive plate established pursuant to section 404-ff of the vehicle and traffic law as added by section one of this act shall only be designed, produced and issued upon the delivery to the department of motor vehicles of a surety bond in the amount of six thousand dollars, which shall be executed by a surety company authorized by the department of financial services to transact business in this state. Provided, however, that if the commissioner shall have received prior to the plate design, production and issuance at least two hundred orders for such distinctive plate together with the additional annual service charge applicable to each such order, which shall be non-refundable, no such surety bond shall be required. All such service charges shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section 404-oo of the vehicle and traffic law to the credit of the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section 95-g of the state finance law and shall be used for the design, production, advertising and distribution of distinctive license plates in accordance with such section 95-g.
2. If, upon the expiration of two years following the date upon which distinctive plates in the series are first available for sale two hundred or more sets of such plates are sold, a bond delivered pursuant to this section shall be discontinued. If fewer than two hundred sets of such plates are sold by such time, the department of motor vehicles shall be entitled to recover against the bond an amount proportionate to such shortfall.
§ 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that section three of this act shall take effect immediately; provided further, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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