Bill Text: NY A03624 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 3624

Bill Title: Establishes a temporary toll holiday for use of the thruway from June 1, 2024 through August 31, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-28 - print number 3624a [A03624 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03624-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3624--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on  Trans-
          portation  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  establishing
          a temporary toll holiday for use of the thruway

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

     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 390 to read as follows:
     3    §  390.  Thruway  toll holiday. Notwithstanding any other provision of
     4  law to the contrary, for the period beginning June first,  two  thousand
     5  twenty-four  through  August  thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four the
     6  authority shall suspend the collection of any fees, rentals  or  charges
     7  imposed  pursuant  to  subdivision eight of section three hundred fifty-
     8  four of this title for the use of the thruway or any part thereof.
     9    § 2. By November 1, 2024, the  comptroller  shall  transfer  from  the
    10  general  fund  to  the  thruway  authority an amount no greater than the
    11  amount that would have otherwise been collected by the thruway authority
    12  if the toll holiday established by section 390 of the public authorities
    13  law had not been authorized; provided,  however,  that  the  comptroller
    14  shall  make  such  transfer  only  after  the director of the budget has
    15  determined in the director's discretion that the transfer  is  necessary
    16  to  ensure  the  thruway authority meets its expenses and obligations at
    17  the end of the toll collection holiday established by section 390 of the
    18  public authorities law.
    19    § 3. The thruway authority shall on  an  emergency  basis,  promulgate
    20  and/or  amend  any  rules  and  regulations necessary to provide for the
    21  provisions of this act.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07319-02-4