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Senate Bill S9168

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides distinctive license plates for family members of police officers killed in the line of duty and eliminates the registration fee for family member distinctive license plates

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2025-S9168 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §404-ff, V & T L

2025-S9168 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides distinctive license plates for the parents, spouses, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, and grandparents of police officers killed in the line of duty; eliminates the registration fee for family member distinctive license plates.

2025-S9168 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9168 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9168
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  providing
   distinctive  license  plates  for  family  members  of police officers
   killed in the line of duty and eliminating the  registration  fee  for
   family member distinctive license plates

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, 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 PLATES FOR FAMILIES OF POLICE OFFICERS KILLED IN
 THE  LINE  OF DUTY. 1. ANY PARENT OF A POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN THE LINE
 OF DUTY OR THE SPOUSE OF A PARENT OF A POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN THE LINE
 OF DUTY, OR THE SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A  FALLEN  POLICE  OFFICER,  OR  ANY
 CHILD,  STEP-CHILD,  SIBLING,  STEP-SIBLING,  OR GRANDPARENT OF A FALLEN
 POLICE OFFICER RESIDING IN THIS STATE SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE  ISSUED  A
 LICENSE  PLATE  BEARING  THE WORDS "POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN THE LINE OF
 DUTY FAMILY". IF A DISTINCTIVE PLATE IS ISSUED TO A FAMILY MEMBER  OF  A
 POLICE  OFFICER  KILLED  IN  THE  LINE OF DUTY PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION,
 ADDITIONAL DISTINCTIVE PLATES MAY BE ISSUED FOR EVERY VEHICLE REGISTERED
 IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY MEMBER OF A POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN THE  LINE
 OF DUTY RECIPIENT RESIDING IN THIS STATE OR THE SPOUSE OF A POLICE OFFI-
 CER  KILLED  IN  THE  LINE  OF  DUTY FAMILY MEMBER. APPLICATION FOR SAID
 LICENSE PLATE SHALL BE FILED WITH THE  COMMISSIONER  IN  SUCH  FORM  AND
 DETAIL AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PRESCRIBE.
   2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLATE AUTHORIZED HEREIN SHALL BE ISSUED UPON PROOF,
 SATISFACTORY  TO  THE  COMMISSIONER, THAT THE APPLICANT OR THE SPOUSE OF
 THE APPLICANT IS A PARENT OR THE  SPOUSE  OF  A  FALLEN  POLICE  OFFICER
 PARENT,  OR  THE  SURVIVING  SPOUSE  OF  A FALLEN POLICE OFFICER, OR ANY
 CHILD, STEP-CHILD, SIBLING, STEP-SIBLING, OR  GRANDPARENT  OF  A  FALLEN
 POLICE OFFICER.
   3. A DISTINCTIVE PLATE ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED
 IN  THE  SAME MANNER AS OTHER NUMBER PLATES PROVIDED, HOWEVER, NO REGIS-
 TRATION FEE OR SERVICE CHARGE SHALL BE CHARGED FOR SUCH PLATE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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