Assembly Bill A9846

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Mandates NYS Transit Authority to produce annual reports concerning actions to reduce noise

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A9846 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2782
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1204-a, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S4898
2015-2016: S1554
2017-2018: S1298
2021-2022: A6265, S3434

2019-A9846 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Mandates NYC Transit Authority to produce annual reports concerning actions to reduce noise.

2019-A9846 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9846
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to mandating the
   NYC transit authority to create annual reports concerning  actions  to
   reduce noise
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1204-a of the  public  authorities
 law,  as added by chapter 736 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as
 follows:
   4. [Within twelve months of the  completion  of  the  study  conducted
 pursuant  to subdivision two of this section, and at twelve month inter-
 vals thereafter, the] THE authority shall submit to the governor and the
 legislature [comprehensive] ANNUAL  reports  detailing  the  authority's
 progress  to date in abating subway noise. The report shall include, but
 not be limited  to  an  itemized  summary  of  all  monies  spent,  bids
 requested  and  received,  contracts  let, and actual work done on noise
 abatement programs during the previous period. Any and all subway  noise
 measurements  made  during  the previous period shall be included, with,
 whenever possible, analyses of such measurements.
   Such ANNUAL report shall also  include  a  detailed  analysis  of  all
 FUTURE noise abatement activities planned for the [next] UPCOMING twelve
 months.  [Following the first twelve month interval these] THESE reports
 shall also include comprehensive statements  of  progress  made  on  all
 planned  noise  abatement  activities  included  in  the previous annual
 report.
   Nothing herein shall preclude such report from being  incorporated  in
 the authority's annual capital report submitted pursuant to the "capital
 financing  and  services  system act of nineteen hundred eighty-one," so
 long as it is maintained as a separate, distinct and identifiable compo-
 nent in such report.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05647-01-9

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