Bill Text: NY A01259 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1259 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the availability of criteria used in formulating capital program plans of the metropolitan transportation authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-02-16 - signed chap.35 [A01259 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01259-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1259

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public authorities law, in relation to the avail-
          ability of criteria used in formulating capital program plans  of  the
          metropolitan transportation authority

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 1269-b of the public  authorities
     2  law,  as  added  by  a  chapter  of the laws of 2020 amending the public
     3  authorities law relating to capital program plans  of  the  metropolitan
     4  transportation  authority,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
     5  6430 and A. 8127, is amended to read as follows:
     6    10. In formulating its capital  program  plans,  the  authority  shall
     7  develop criteria to determine how to best prioritize subway stations for
     8  accessibility  improvements.  Such  criteria  shall  include, but not be
     9  limited to:   citywide geographic coverage;  transit  transfer  options;
    10  annual ridership volume; census tract data for senior and disabled popu-
    11  lations  and  percentage  of  those  populations in poverty; residential
    12  density of surrounding neighborhoods; and proximity to medical  centers,
    13  schools,  parks,  business  districts, cultural hubs and senior centers.
    14  Such criteria shall be made publicly available [as well as the methodol-
    15  ogy used to establish the criteria].
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    17  manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the public authorities
    18  law relating to capital program plans of the metropolitan transportation
    19  authority, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6430 and A. 8127,
    20  takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07157-01-1