Bill Text: NY A07850 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7850 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to a half fare rate program in the MTA for veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A07850 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07850-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7850--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 28, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee   on   Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to a  half  fare
         rate program in the metropolitan transportation authority for veterans
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 16 of section 1266 of  the  public  authorities
    2  law, as amended by chapter 25 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    16.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority and any
    5  of its subsidiary corporations shall establish and implement a half fare
    6  rate program for, (A) persons with serious mental illness who are eligi-
    7  ble to receive supplemental security income benefits as defined pursuant
    8  to title sixteen of the federal social  security  act  and  section  two
    9  hundred  nine of the social services law, AND (B) VETERANS. FOR PURPOSES
   10  OF THIS SUBDIVISION "VETERAN" SHALL MEAN A MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORCES OF
   11  THE UNITED STATES WHO SERVED AND WAS HONORABLY  DISCHARGED  OR  RELEASED
   12  UNDER HONORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES FROM SUCH SERVICE, AND PRESENTS AN AUTHOR-
   13  IZED  VETERAN  IDENTIFICATION  CARD,  AND WHO IS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED
   14  STATES OR AN ALIEN LAWFULLY ADMITTED  FOR  PERMANENT  RESIDENCE  IN  THE
   15  UNITED STATES AND WHO IS A RESIDENT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AT THE TIME
   16  OF APPLICATION FOR THE HALF FARE RATE PROGRAM.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11168-03-5