Bill Text: NY A03030 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Long Island Rail Road Company to discontinue payments to Amtrak to ensure that impacted commuters are fully compensated due to unscheduled delays and cancellations caused by inadequate maintenance of the Penn Station Complex and tunnels for the period commencing March 24, 2017 through December 31, 2017.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A03030 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03030-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3030
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT  in  relation  to  authorizing  the  Metropolitan  Transportation
          Authority  and  the  Long  Island  Rail  Road  Company  to discontinue
          payments to Amtrak
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the Metro-
     2  politan Transportation Authority and the Long Island Rail  Road  Company
     3  shall  discontinue  any and all payments to Amtrak, as needed, to ensure
     4  that impacted commuters are fully compensated due to unscheduled  delays
     5  and  cancellations  caused by inadequate maintenance of the Penn Station
     6  Complex and tunnels, for the period commencing March  24,  2017  through
     7  December  31,  2017,  unless  service is restored to ninety-five percent
     8  on-time performance for trains arriving and departing at  Penn  Station,
     9  for  a  period  of no less than one month. Any and all payments withheld
    10  shall be refunded to impacted commuters in the form of free  rail  tick-
    11  ets.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05129-01-9