Authorizes the issuance of congenital heart disease awareness license plates; and establishes the congenital heart disease research and education fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6619
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
July 3, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
the issuance of congenital heart disease awareness license plates; and
to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
congenital heart disease research and education 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. Congenital heart disease 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 congenital heart disease awareness and
6 research bearing the phrase "Congenital Heart Disease Awareness" and any
7 other phrases and design approved by the commissioner.
8 2. An application for such license plate shall be filed with the
9 commissioner in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
10 prescribe.
11 3. A distinctive plate issued pursuant to this section shall be issued
12 in the same manner as other number plates upon the payment of the regu-
13 lar registration fee prescribed by section four hundred one of this
14 article; provided, however, that an additional annual service charge of
15 twenty-five dollars shall be charged for such plates. Such additional
16 annual service charge shall be deposited to the credit of the congenital
17 heart disease research and education fund established pursuant to
18 section ninety-nine-hh of the state finance law and shall be used for
19 the purposes specified in such section.
20 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-hh to
21 read as follows:
22 § 99-hh. Congenital heart disease research and education fund. 1.
23 There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 taxation and finance and the comptroller a fund to be known as the
2 "congenital heart disease research and education fund".
3 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
4 provisions of section four hundred four-ff of the vehicle and traffic
5 law and all other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto
6 from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this
7 section shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests
8 for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing
9 them into the fund according to law.
10 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only for congenital heart
11 disease research projects approved by the department of health in New
12 York state. As used in this section, the term "congenital heart disease
13 research and education projects" means scientific research into the
14 causes, prevention, screening, treatment and cure of congenital heart
15 disease.
16 4. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
17 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
18 of health.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.