Senate Bill S272

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "MTA Executive Pay Freeze Act"

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • 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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2025-S272 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1266-n, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5687

2025-S272 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Ensures accountability of executives in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for service disruptions or delays that occur on the MTA's subway, bus, and commuter rail systems; provides the pay of all executives in the authority shall be frozen for each year in which there is an increase in service disruptions or delays on the MTA's subway, bus, and commuter rail systems until the MTA's service disruptions and delays return to their previous level or are reduced; provides for penalties and enforcement.

2025-S272 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    272
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 freezing  the
   salary of the executives in the metropolitan transportation authority

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "MTA Executive Pay Freeze Act".
   § 2. Legislative intent. The purpose of this act is to ensure account-
 ability of executives in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
 for  service  disruptions or delays that occur on the MTA's subway, bus,
 and commuter rail systems.
   § 3. The public authorities law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
 1266-n to read as follows:
   §  1266-N.  PAY  FREEZE OF EXECUTIVES. 1. THE PAY OF ALL EXECUTIVES IN
 THE AUTHORITY SHALL BE FROZEN  FOR  EACH  YEAR  IN  WHICH  THERE  IS  AN
 INCREASE  IN  SERVICE  DISRUPTIONS  OR DELAYS ON THE AUTHORITY'S SUBWAY,
 BUS, AND COMMUTER RAIL SYSTEMS. THE PAY FREEZE SHALL CONTINUE UNTIL  THE
 MTA'S  SERVICE  DISRUPTIONS AND DELAYS RETURN TO THEIR PREVIOUS LEVEL OR
 ARE REDUCED.
   2. THE PAY FREEZE SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY EXECUTIVE WHO IS NOT  RESPON-
 SIBLE  FOR THE AUTHORITY'S SUBWAY, BUS, AND COMMUTER RAIL SYSTEMS OR WHO
 DOES NOT HAVE DIRECT CONTROL OVER SERVICE DELIVERY. THE PAY  FREEZE  MAY
 ALSO   BE   WAIVED  IF  THE  EXECUTIVE  DEMONSTRATES  THAT  THE  SERVICE
 DISRUPTIONS OR DELAYS WERE  BEYOND  THEIR  CONTROL  OR  WERE  CAUSED  BY
 FACTORS OUTSIDE OF THE AUTHORITY'S CONTROL.
   3.  THE AUTHORITY SHALL REPORT ANNUALLY TO THE PUBLIC ON THE NUMBER OF
 SERVICE DISRUPTIONS OR DELAYS ON THE MTA'S  SUBWAY,  BUS,  AND  COMMUTER
 RAIL  SYSTEMS,  AND THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE MTA TO ADDRESS SUCH SERVICE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00885-01-5

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