Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; provides for the annual service charge to be deposited into the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund and the excess of six thousand dollars to be deposited to the credit of the cure childhood cancer trust fund; establishes the "cure childhood cancer trust fund".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 798 A. 2388
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2009
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, ALESI, FLANAGAN, HUNTLEY,
LARKIN, LEIBELL, MAZIARZ, MORAHAN, ROBACH, SEWARD, STACHOWSKI, WINNER
-- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Transportation
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GABRYSZAK -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. ALFANO, BARRA -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
the issuance of license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood
Cancer" and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establish-
ing the cure childhood cancer trust 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-x to read as follows:
3 § 404-x. Distinctive "Cure Childhood Cancer" license plates. 1. Any
4 person residing in this state shall upon request be issued a distinctive
5 license plate bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer". Application
6 for said license plates shall be filed with the commissioner in such
7 form and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe.
8 2. Any distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be
9 issued in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the
10 regular 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 annual
13 service charge shall be deposited pursuant to the provisions of section
14 four hundred four-oo of this article to the credit of the department of
15 motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund established by section
16 ninety-five-g of the state finance law, and shall be used for the
17 production, design, advertising and marketing of distinctive license
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 plates pursuant to such section ninety-five-g; provided, however, that
2 annual service charges collected in excess of six thousand dollars shall
3 be deposited to the credit of the "cure childhood cancer trust fund"
4 established pursuant to section ninety-nine-q of the state finance law
5 and shall be used for childhood cancer research and education projects
6 approved by the commissioner of health or to provide grants to state
7 university of New York health science centers or university hospitals
8 for the purpose of researching and promoting a cure for childhood
9 cancer, pursuant to such section ninety-nine-q.
10 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-q to
11 read as follows:
12 § 99-q. Cure childhood cancer trust fund. 1. There is hereby estab-
13 lished in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance
14 and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "cure childhood
15 cancer trust fund".
16 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
17 provisions of section four hundred four-x of the vehicle and traffic law
18 and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from
19 any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this
20 section shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests
21 for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing
22 them into the fund according to law.
23 3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for childhood cancer
24 research and education projects approved by the commissioner of health,
25 or to provide grants to state university of New York health science
26 centers or university hospitals for the purpose of researching and
27 promoting a cure for childhood cancer.
28 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
29 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
30 of health.
31 5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure
32 that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the
33 end of that fiscal year.
34 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
35 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
36 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
37 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is
38 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
39 effective date.
