Issues distinctive epilepsy awareness license plates and establishes an epilepsy awareness fund and an epilepsy research and education program

Latest action Jan 7, 2026

Issues distinctive epilepsy awareness license plates; establishes an epilepsy awareness fund and an epilepsy research and education program.

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Where it stands

Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.

Introduced
In committee
Up for a vote
Passed one chamber
Passed
Enacted

New York State Senate

Same as A4152, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Amends the Vehicle and Traffic Law.

Committee

Transportation · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Transportation · New York State Senate.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

This bill seeks to simultaneously raise awareness for epilepsy and raise funds for the research and patient education of epilepsy.

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Recorded votes

Vote: Floor vote
NY SenateMar 27, 2025Result: passed
(61) (0) (0) (2)
Vote: Committee vote · Transportation
Senate TransportationMar 18, 2025Result: passed
(13) (0) (0) (0)

Cosponsors

Angelo Santabarbara, Brian Manktelow and 13 more on Agora

Democratic11
Republican4

Show all 15 on Agora

See the full list on nysenate.gov

The sponsor's argument

Why Roxanne J. Persaud says this is needed

Despite some estimates showing that roughly 1% of the U.S. population has epilepsy, it remains a remarkably understudied condition. To the extent that it is studied and understood within the medical community, it is even less understood in wider society. Many people do riot know the proper protocol when someone near them is having a seizure. More- over, many people have misguided and ingrained beliefs about epilepsy, like that people with epilepsy are possessed, that they have brought it upon themselves, or that many are not capable of living relatively normal lives. These issues largely stem from persistent stigma and a taboo surrounding seizures and epilepsy as a discussion topic. An epilepsy awareness license plate would not only go a long way to lifting such stigma, but the funds collected would go toward research and patient education that would further lift such stigma and, ideally, contribute to literature that makes great strides in the treatment of people with epilepsy.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

Jan 7, 2026
Died in Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
NY Assembly
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
NY Senate
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
NY Assembly
Mar 27, 2025
Sent to the executive
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
NY Senate
Mar 27, 2025
Passed a chamber
PASSED SENATE
NY Senate

Show full history (6 earlier events)

Mar 27, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
NY Assembly
Mar 20, 2025
Advanced to Third Reading
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NY Senate
Mar 19, 2025
2ND Report CAL.
2ND REPORT CAL.
NY Senate
Mar 18, 2025
1ST Report CAL.578
1ST REPORT CAL.578
NY Senate
Jan 31, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
NY Assembly
Jan 13, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
NY Senate

About this record

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Cosponsors: The list shows the cosponsors who are on Agora, A to Z. The official record may list more.
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