Bill Text: NY A03228 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to establish a student fare program for trains and buses which discounts three train and/or bus fares each weekday equal to the standard pay-per-ride fare.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A03228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03228-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3228

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the
          metropolitan transportation authority  to  establish  a  student  fare
          program for trains and buses

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1266-l of the public authorities law, as  added  by
     2  chapter  668 of the laws of 2022, is renumbered 1266-m and a new section
     3  1266-n to read as follows:
     4    § 1266-n. Student fare program. Notwithstanding any other provision of
     5  law to the contrary,  the  authority  shall  establish  a  student  fare
     6  program.  Such  program  shall  provide  each student in a city having a
     7  population of one million or  more,  who  attends  kindergarten  through
     8  twelfth  grade  and who resides a half mile or more from the school such
     9  student attends, with a fare reduction equal to  the  standard  pay-per-
    10  ride  fare for three fares between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. each weekday
    11  for any and all train and/or bus travel, including but  not  limited  to
    12  standard bus service and express bus service. Any difference between the
    13  standard  pay-per-ride fare and the required fare for such service shall
    14  be paid by such student.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    16  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    17  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    18  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    19  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02193-01-3