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Senate Bill S3945
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 26th 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
2019-S3945 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S3945 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3945 SPONSOR: GOUNARDES TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing and requiring the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, to implement a program to permit certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the Long Island Rail Road without cost SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of this bill amends Public Authorities Law section 1266(14) to add New York City fire marshals to the Long Island Railroad no fare program. Section 2 of this bill provides that this act shall take effect imme- diately, provided, however, that the no fare program shall be imple- mented on or before the one hundred twentieth day after this act shall have become a law and that a report containing the provisions of such program shall be made to the governor, the senate majority and minority
2019-S3945 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3945 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 21, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 authorizing and requiring the metropolitan transportation authority, in consulta- tion with the Long Island Rail Road, to implement a program to permit certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the Long Island Rail Road without cost THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of the public authorities law, as amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the terms of any contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, shall establish and implement a no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for police officers [employed by the city of New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of Suffolk, Suffolk county villages and towns, the division of state police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, the New York city housing authority and the New York city transit authority] AS DEFINED BY SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIM- INAL PROCEDURE LAW AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS. In establishing such program, which has as its goal increased protection and improved safety for its commuters, the authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall, among other things, consider: (a) requiring police officers AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS who ride without cost to register with the Long Island Rail Road as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring such officers to indicate during such registration process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains that such officers expect to ride; and (c) periodically re-registering and re-validating such officers AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS. The authority and the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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