Bill Text: NY A08685 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring the authority to establish and implement a way for a person to refill the balance on metrocards and authority bus passes online.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - reported referred to ways and means [A08685 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08685-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8685
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          metropolitan transportation authority to provide an online alternative
          to refilling metrocards and authority bus passes
          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 19 to read as follows:
     3    19.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law, the authority shall
     4  establish and implement a way for a person  to  refill  the  balance  on
     5  metrocards and authority bus passes online.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13493-01-6