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Jan 06, 2016 |
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Feb 20, 2015 |
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Senate Bill S3875
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S3875 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S3875 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3875 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to establishing a committee on safety within the metropolitan transportation authority PURPOSE: This bill would require the MTA to form a Safety Committee for the purpose of reviewing safety procedures. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill would require the Chairman of the MTA to establish a Safety Committee that would include board members from the MTA's New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), Metro-North Railroad (MNR), and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Committees. The Safety Committee would convene at least once annually and each committee member would be required to report on any and all initiatives, concerns, improvements, and failures involving safety. JUSTIFICATION: This bill would reconstitute the Safety Committee that was effectively
2015-S3875 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3875 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 20, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to establishing a committee on safety within the metropolitan transportation authority THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by chapter 549 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: (b) The chairman shall establish committees to assist him in the performance of his duties and shall appoint members of the authority to such committees. Among such committees, there shall be a committee on operations of the New York city transit authority, the Manhattan and Bronx surface transit operating authority and the Staten Island rapid transit operating authority; a committee on operations of the Long Island Rail Road and the metropolitan suburban bus authority; a commit- tee on operations of the Metro-North commuter railroad; a committee on operations of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority; a committee on finance; [and] a committee on capital program oversight; AND A COMMITTEE ON SAFETY. In addition to such appointed members, each of the non-voting members referred to in subparagraph two of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section shall serve on the committee on capital program oversight, the committee on finance, THE COMMITTEE ON SAFETY, the committee on operations of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority, and the operations committee relevant to the commuter council that recommended such member. The alternate non-voting members shall each serve on the respective operations committee relevant to the commuter council that recommended each member. The committee on capital program oversight AND THE COMMITTEE ON SAFETY shall include not less than three members, and shall include the chairpersons of the committee on oper- ations of the New York city transit authority, the Manhattan and Bronx surface transit operating authority and the Staten Island rapid transit operating authority, the committee on operations of the Long Island Rail Road and the metropolitan suburban bus authority, and the committee on
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