Senate Bill S5119

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts the metropolitan transportation authority from the requirement to reimburse the state for services provided to such authority

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions 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-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3380
Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2975, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6834
2019-2020: S3669
2021-2022: S1267, A7851
2023-2024: S145, A2160

2025-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts the metropolitan transportation authority from the requirement to reimburse the state for state services provided to such authority.

2025-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5119
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. GIANARIS, JACKSON, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Corpo-
   rations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to exempting the
   metropolitan  transportation authority from the requirement for public
   authorities to reimburse the  state  for  services  provided  to  such
   authorities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2975  of  the  public  authorities
 law,  as  added by chapter 62 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the  contrary,  every
 public  authority  and  every  public  benefit corporation created by or
 pursuant to [New York] state law at least three  of  whose  members  are
 appointed  by  the  governor,  whether  such authority or corporation is
 otherwise governed by this chapter (such entities, as so constituted, to
 be hereafter in  this  title  referred  to  as  "public  benefit  corpo-
 rations"), shall reimburse to [New York] THE state an allocable share of
 state  governmental  costs  attributable to the provision of services to
 public benefit corporations,  as  determined  [herein]  IN  THIS  TITLE.
 PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  PROVISIONS  OF THIS SECTION AND, FOR THE
 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "PUBLIC  BENEFIT  CORPORATION"  SHALL
 NOT INCLUDE THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, AS ESTABLISHED IN
 TITLE  ELEVEN OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER. The payment of such costs
 by public benefit corporations is a valid and proper purpose  for  which
 available authority funds may be applied.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01804-01-5

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