Bill Text: NY A00935 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 935 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Requires the New York city transit authority advisory council to investigate, report and make recommendations on instructing the public on how to react when an individual falls onto authority facility tracks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-10 - substituted by s3160a [A00935 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           935

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CARROLL, COLTON, SEAWRIGHT, OTIS, GOTTFRIED,
          VANEL -- 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
          New  York  city  transit  authority  advisory  council to investigate,
          report and make recommendations on instructing the public  on  how  to
          react when an individual falls onto authority facility tracks

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1204-e of the public authorities law is amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  On  or  before December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one, the
     4  council shall  investigate,  report  and  make  recommendations  to  the
     5  authority  board  related  to  signage  to instruct the public on how to
     6  react when an individual falls  onto  authority  facility  tracks.  Such
     7  report and recommendations shall include, but not be limited to, consid-
     8  eration  of  an  educational  campaign  for  the public including public
     9  service  announcements  within  and  without  subway  cars  and   subway
    10  stations, the costs of signage for all transit facilities, and any other
    11  issues  the  council  deems relevant, such as potential liability issues
    12  for the authority, instructions for the public on how to react to  other
    13  emergencies  and  alternative  methods  of alerting the public on how to
    14  react when an individual falls on transit facility tracks. Such investi-
    15  gation, report and recommendations shall be made public  by  posting  on
    16  the council website and any other method the council deems appropriate.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05259-01-1