Bill Text: NY A08793 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the Long Island Rail Road and every public transportation authority in a city with a population of one million or more receiving operating assistance shall adopt rules and regulations providing that use of any of its facilities transporting passengers be free of charge for persons who display an authorization shield and identification card evidencing that they are correction officers of the city of New York department of correction and are performing their official duties or are on their way to or from performing their official duties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-14 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A08793 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08793-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8793
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
       AN  ACT  to amend the transportation law, in relation to providing fares
         free of charge to certain correction officers on passenger transporta-
         tion facilities operated by certain public transportation authorities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
    2  135-a to read as follows:
    3    S 135-A. FREE USE OF PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES  OPERATED  BY
    4  CERTAIN  PUBLIC  TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES.   THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD
    5  AND EVERY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY LOCATED IN A CITY WITH A POPU-
    6  LATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE RECEIVING OPERATING ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO
    7  SECTION EIGHTEEN-B OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL, NOT LATER  THAN  MARCH  FIRST,
    8  TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, ADOPT REGULATIONS PROVIDING THAT USE OF ANY OF ITS
    9  FACILITIES  TRANSPORTING  PASSENGERS  BE  FREE OF CHARGE FOR PERSONS WHO
   10  DISPLAY AN AUTHORIZATION SHIELD AND IDENTIFICATION CARD EVIDENCING  THAT
   11  THEY  ARE  CORRECTION  OFFICERS  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  CITY  DEPARTMENT OF
   12  CORRECTION AND ARE PERFORMING THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES OR ON THEIR  WAY  TO
   13  OR FROM PERFORMING THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES.
   14    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01782-03-4