Bill Text: NY A07861 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7861 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits public transportation authorities in regions with 500,000 or more residents from procuring certain commuter vehicles which use fossil fuels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-18 - print number 7861a [A07861 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07861-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7861--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 24, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CUSICK, FALL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions --  recommitted
          to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and Commissions in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  prohibiting
          certain  public  transportation  authorities  from  procuring  certain
          commuter vehicles which use fossil fuels

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2879 of the public authorities law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (q) to read as follows:
     3    (q)  Public  transportation  authorities  serving metropolitan regions
     4  with a cumulative population of five hundred thousand or more  residents
     5  shall  be  prohibited  from  procuring  commuter  buses, passenger vans,
     6  liveries, and other commuter vehicles which travel primarily  on  public
     7  roads which use fossil fuels, as defined by section 10-103 of the energy
     8  law, on and after January first, two thousand twenty-eight.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10949-02-9