Bill Text: NY S05545 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-23 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S05545 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05545-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5545--A
           Cal. No. 1028
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 14, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  SERINO,  CROCI,  LARKIN -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
         portation  -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
         and second report, ordered to a third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
         reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
       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.
                                                                  LBD11168-02-5