Bill Text: NY A05233 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the New York city transit authority to contract with mass transit entities including the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company to provide a minimum twenty-five percent discount for college students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05233 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05233-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5233

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing a
          reduced fare on  the  metropolitan  transportation  authority  transit
          system

          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.  (a)  The authority, in cooperation with the New York city transit
     4  authority, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter  Rail-
     5  road  Company,  shall establish and implement a reduced fare program for
     6  transportation on New York city  transit  authority  systems,  the  Long
     7  Island  Rail  Road  and  the  Metro-North  Commuter Railroad Company for
     8  students of a college or vocational institution that  is  located  in  a
     9  city  with  a  population  of one million or more provided, however, the
    10  authority shall not pay any costs or expenses  related  to  the  reduced
    11  fare  program  from its operating or capital budgets and may only imple-
    12  ment the reduced fare program with funds appropriated to it by the state
    13  of New York for such purpose.
    14    (b) For purposes of this section, the following words and terms  shall
    15  have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another or
    16  different meaning or intent:
    17    (i)  "Student"  shall  mean  a  person who is enrolled at a college or
    18  vocational institution;
    19    (ii) "Reduced fare" shall mean a  minimum  of  a  twenty-five  percent
    20  discount on the value of a single or monthly ride fare;
    21    (iii) "College" shall mean any institution of higher education, recog-
    22  nized  and  approved  by  the  board of regents of the university of the
    23  state of New York, which provides a  course  of  study  leading  to  the
    24  granting of a post-secondary degree or diploma; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08670-01-3
        A. 5233                             2

     1    (iv)  "Vocational Institution" shall mean a business, trade, technical
     2  or other occupational school approved as such by the board of regents of
     3  the university of the state of New York or accredited  by  a  nationally
     4  recognized  accrediting  agency  or  association accepted as such by the
     5  regents of the state of New York.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.