Bill Text: NY S00397 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the New York city department of transportation and New York city department of housing preservation and development, to study the transportation and housing needs of Randalls and Wards Islands.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S00397 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00397-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           397

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority to study the
          transportation and housing needs of Randalls and Wards Islands

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

     1    Section  1. The metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation
     2  with the New York city department of transportation and  New  York  city
     3  department  of  housing  preservation  and  development, shall conduct a
     4  comprehensive study of the transportation and housing needs of  Randalls
     5  and  Wards  Islands.  Such  study  shall include, but not be limited to,
     6  increasing the frequency of bus service from Randalls and Wards  Islands
     7  to  all  connected boroughs and the development of affordable housing on
     8  Randalls and Wards Islands.
     9    § 2. The metropolitan transportation authority, New York city  depart-
    10  ment of transportation and New York city department of housing preserva-
    11  tion  and  development,  shall  jointly  prepare a report which shall be
    12  submitted to the governor, the temporary president of  the  senate,  the
    13  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the  minority  leader of the senate and the
    14  minority leader of the assembly, within one  year  after  the  effective
    15  date  of this act, containing findings and recommendations for potential
    16  legislative and regulatory actions to  address  the  transportation  and
    17  housing needs of Randalls and Wards Islands.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


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