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                                   2621
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 and the  public  authorities
   law, in relation to limiting the number of tolls charged on trucks and
   limiting  the  Triborough bridge and tunnel authority's power to raise
   its toll schedule
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 1704-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by section 1 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Consistent with the goals of reducing traffic congestion within the
 central business district and funding capital  projects  the  Triborough
 bridge  and tunnel authority shall have the power, subject to agreements
 with its bondholders, and applicable federal law to establish and charge
 variable tolls and fees  for  vehicles  entering  or  remaining  in  the
 central  business district at any time and shall have the power, subject
 to agreements with bondholders, and applicable federal law to make rules
 and regulations for the establishment and collection of central business
 district tolls, fees, and other charges. For purposes of establishing  a
 central  business  district  toll  or tolls the board shall, at minimum,
 ensure annual revenues and fees collected under such program, less costs
 of operation of the same,  provide  for  sufficient  revenues  into  the
 central  business  district  tolling  capital  lockbox fund, established
 pursuant to section five hundred fifty-three-j of the public authorities
 law necessary to fund fifteen billion dollars for capital  projects  for
 the  2020 to 2024 MTA capital program, and any additional revenues above
 that amount to be available for any successor programs. Additionally, no
 toll may be established and charged  on  passenger  vehicles  registered
 pursuant  to subdivision six of section four hundred one of this chapter
 AND TRUCKS AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 more than once per day for purposes of  entering  the  central  business
 district.
   §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 1704-b to read as follows:
    § 1704-B. LIMITATION ON TOLL INCREASES IN  RELATION  TO  THE  CENTRAL
 BUSINESS  TOLLING PROGRAM.   THE TOLL SCHEDULE AUTHORIZED FOR ENTRY INTO
 OR REMAINING IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT PURSUANT TO SECTION SEVEN-
 TEEN HUNDRED FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL NOT  BE  INCREASED  AFTER  THE
 RECEIPTS OF ALL TOLLS TOTAL ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
   §  3. Subdivision 4 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended by section 2 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the  laws
 of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  Charging of tolls, taxes, fees, licenses or permits for the use of
 the highway or any of its parts or entry into or  remaining  within  the
 central  business  district  established by article forty-four-C of this
 chapter, where the imposition thereof is authorized by law.   SUCH  TOLL
 SCHEDULE SHALL NOT BE INCREASED AFTER THE RECEIPT OF ALL TOLLS TOTAL ONE
 BILLION DOLLARS.
   § 4. Subdivision 12-a of section 553 of the public authorities law, as
 added by section 4 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws of
 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   12-a.  To  establish and charge variable tolls, fees and other charges
 for vehicles entering or remaining within the central business  district
 and to make rules and regulations for the collection of such tolls, fees
 and other charges, subject to and in accordance with such agreement with
 bondholders  and  applicable  federal  law as may be made as hereinafter
 provided. Subject to agreements with bondholders and applicable  federal
 law,  all  tolls, fees and other revenues derived from the central busi-
 ness district tolling program shall be applied to the payment of operat-
 ing, administration, and other necessary expenses of the authority prop-
 erly allocable to such program, including  the  capital  costs  of  such
 program,  and to the payment of interest or principal of bonds, notes or
 other obligations of the authority or  the  metropolitan  transportation
 authority  issued  for  transit  and  commuter  projects  as provided in
 section five hundred fifty-three-j of  this  title,  and  shall  not  be
 subject  to distribution under section five hundred sixty-nine-c of this
 title  or  section  twelve  hundred  nineteen-a  of  this  chapter.  The
 provisions  of  section  twenty-eight hundred four of this chapter shall
 not be applicable to the tolls and fees  established  by  the  authority
 pursuant  to  this subdivision. Any such fares, tolls, and other charges
 shall be established and changed only if approved by resolution  of  the
 authority  adopted  by not less than a majority vote of the whole number
 of members of the authority then in office, with the chairman having one
 additional vote in the event of a tie vote,  and  only  after  a  public
 hearing.  SUCH  TOLL  SCHEDULE  AUTHORIZED  PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION
 SHALL NOT BE INCREASED AFTER THE RECEIPTS OF ALL TOLLS TOTAL ONE BILLION
 DOLLARS.
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.