NY State Senate Bill 2025-S5128

Senate Bill S5128

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the New York city transit authority annual report on the reduction and abatement of noise

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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2025-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5818
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1204-a, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S8499, A9474

2025-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the New York city transit authority to outline in its annual report the procedures and methodologies used for the reduction and abatement of noise.

2025-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5128

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the annual
report on the reduction and abatement of noise on the New York city
transit authority

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

For the MTA to further expand upon the methodologies and technologies
that influence the abatement and reduction of noise on MTA transit
systems

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 adds new language to subdivision 4 section 1204-a of the
public authorities law to further include any and all procedures and
methodologies used for the reduction and abatement of noise on all tran-
sit systems, which will include the techniques, procedures and technolo-
gies.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The MTA has been procuring a noise report since it was statutoriy
authriozed in 2019. While they do highlight measurements on noise
reduction, they do not include what technologies and methodologies used
to reduce noise.

It would benefit New Yorkers to have a publicly available outline of all
methodologies, measurement techniques, procedures and technologies to
maintain the transit system that play a role in the production or
reduction of noise. We'd like to see a correlation between transit
upgrades and what technologies in those upgrades reduce noise.

Noise reduction has been cited to improve learning in classrooms adja-
cent to transit means in addition to improving overall mental health of
New York residents. New York has spent record amounts of money on the
MTA in the last fiscal year and an update to the reporting on noise is a
relatively small ask.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S8499

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2025-S5128 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5128
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  the  annual
   report  on  the  reduction and abatement of noise on the New York city
   transit authority

   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 amended by chapter 488 of the laws of 2021, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   4.  The  authority  shall  submit  to the governor and the legislature
 annual reports detailing the authority's progress  to  date  in  abating
 subway  noise.  The report shall include, but not be limited to an item-
 ized summary of all monies spent, bids requested and received, contracts
 let, and actual work done on noise abatement programs during the  previ-
 ous period. Any and all subway noise measurements made during the previ-
 ous  period shall be included, with, whenever possible, analyses of such
 measurements. THE AUTHORITY SHALL FURTHER OUTLINE ANY AND ALL PROCEDURES
 AND METHODOLOGIES USED FOR THE REDUCTION AND ABATEMENT OF NOISE  ON  ALL
 TRANSIT  SYSTEMS,  WHICH  SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, MEASURE-
 MENTS USED TO ASSESS EFFECTIVENESS OF NOISE ABATEMENT TECHNIQUES, EXIST-
 ING PROCEDURES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO MAINTAIN THE TRANSIT SYSTEM THAT  MAY
 BE  RELEVANT  IN  THE PRODUCTION OF NOISE, AND NOISE EVALUATIONS FOR NEW
 EQUIPMENT. THE AUTHORITY SHALL ASSESS  EFFECTIVENESS  OF  PROCEDURES  IN
 EACH ANNUAL REPORT.
   Such  annual  report  shall  also  include  a detailed analysis of all
 future noise  abatement  activities  planned  for  the  upcoming  twelve
 months.  These  reports  shall  also include comprehensive statements of
 progress made on all planned noise abatement activities included in  the
 previous annual report.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06074-01-5
 S. 5128                             2

 
   Nothing  [herein]  IN THIS SUBDIVISION 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 component in such report.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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