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                                   5172
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, BORRELLO, PALUMBO, RIVERA, WALCZYK, WEBER
   -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, the environmental  conserva-
   tion  law  and  the  highway law, in relation to renaming the Governor
   Mario M.  Cuomo bridge the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 356 of the public authorities law,
 as  amended by section 6 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the  southern
 Westchester  connection  at  or  near Tuckahoe road, thence in a general
 northerly and westerly direction crossing the Hudson river  at  a  point
 south  of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The Governor
 Mario M. Cuomo  TAPPAN  ZEE  Bridge",  including  a  highway  connection
 between  "The  Governor  Mario  M.  Cuomo TAPPAN ZEE Bridge" and the New
 England section of the thruway presently known as interstate  route  two
 hundred  eighty-seven,  thence in a general westerly direction to inter-
 sect with existing route number seventeen or to a connection  with  that
 route,  including  a thruway connection from that portion of the section
 west of the Hudson river, generally southerly to a point  to  be  deter-
 mined by the authority on the New York-New Jersey boundary line.
   § 2. Section 13-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended
 by  section 7 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
 read as follows:
 § 13-0103. Marine and coastal district described.
   The marine and coastal district shall include the waters of the Atlan-
 tic Ocean within three nautical miles from the coast line and all  other
 tidal  waters  within  the  state,  including the Hudson River up to the
 Governor Mario M. Cuomo TAPPAN ZEE bridge.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 13-0307 of the  environmental  conserva-
 tion law, as amended by section 8 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of
 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The department periodically shall examine all shellfish lands with-
 in  the  marine district and the Hudson River between the Governor Mario
 M.  Cuomo TAPPAN ZEE bridge and the federal dam at Troy to ascertain the
 sanitary condition thereof in accordance  with  regulations  promulgated
 pursuant to section 13-0319 of this title.
   §  4.  Section  342-ww  of the highway law, as amended by section 9 of
 part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   § 342-ww. Portion of the New York state thruway to  be  designated  as
 the  "Jewish War Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the New
 York state thruway in the county  of  Rockland  constituting  interstate
 route  287  from  the  New Jersey border to "The Governor Mario M. Cuomo
 TAPPAN ZEE Bridge" shall be designated and  known  as  the  "Jewish  War
 Veterans Memorial Highway".
   §  5. Subdivision 2 of section 349-a of the highway law, as amended by
 section 10 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   2.  The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the southern
 Westchester connection at or near Tuckahoe road,  thence  in  a  general
 northerly  and  westerly  direction crossing the Hudson river at a point
 south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The  Governor
 Mario  M.  Cuomo TAPPAN ZEE Bridge", thence in a general westerly direc-
 tion  to  intersect  with  existing  route  number  seventeen  or  to  a
 connection  with  that  route,  including a thruway connection from that
 portion of the section west of the Hudson river, generally southerly  to
 a  point  to  be  determined by the authority on the New York-New Jersey
 boundary line.
   § 6. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the  instal-
 lation  and  maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
 as designated pursuant to this act.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.