Bill Text: NY A00816 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the metropolitan transportation authority from promulgating rules or regulations that penalize a student for using a student MetroCard when school is not in session.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A00816 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00816-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 816 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, SIMON, COLTON, REYES, DICKENS, MAMDANI, GLICK, AUBRY, GIBBS, CRUZ, JACKSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to prohibiting the metropolitan transportation authority from promulgating rules or regulations that penalize a student for using a student MetroCard when school is not in session The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 20 to read as follows: 3 20. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority and any 4 of its subsidiary corporations shall not promulgate any rules or regu- 5 lations that penalize any student for using any card or other fare media 6 issued by the city school district for the city of New York for trans- 7 portation purposes on any day when school is not in session. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02483-01-3
