Bill Text: NY A07840 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to provide more detailed information to the public on its website regarding specific subway line performance and capacity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A07840 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07840-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7840

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 24, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          metropolitan transportation authority to provide more detailed  infor-
          mation to the public on its website

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1276-e of the public authorities law, as  added  by
     2  section  19  of  part H of chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 1276-e. Reporting. 1. The authority shall post on its website on  or
     5  before  the  first of May, the law firms retained by the authority which
     6  in the past year received payment for services in such year.
     7    2. The authority shall further  post  monthly  statistics  on  service
     8  disruptions,  including  but  not limited to: delineation of planned and
     9  unplanned disruptions; length of service disruptions and  the  frequency
    10  of disruptions per month.
    11    3. The authority shall conduct a study on maximum capacity and current
    12  capacity.  Such  study shall differentiate between platform capacity and
    13  train capacity.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06723-01-9