Bill Text: NY A05233 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the New York city transit authority to contract with mass transit entities including the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company to provide a minimum twenty-five percent discount for college students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05233 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05233-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5233 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing a reduced fare on the metropolitan transportation authority transit system The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 20 to read as follows: 3 20. (a) The authority, in cooperation with the New York city transit 4 authority, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Rail- 5 road Company, shall establish and implement a reduced fare program for 6 transportation on New York city transit authority systems, the Long 7 Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company for 8 students of a college or vocational institution that is located in a 9 city with a population of one million or more provided, however, the 10 authority shall not pay any costs or expenses related to the reduced 11 fare program from its operating or capital budgets and may only imple- 12 ment the reduced fare program with funds appropriated to it by the state 13 of New York for such purpose. 14 (b) For purposes of this section, the following words and terms shall 15 have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another or 16 different meaning or intent: 17 (i) "Student" shall mean a person who is enrolled at a college or 18 vocational institution; 19 (ii) "Reduced fare" shall mean a minimum of a twenty-five percent 20 discount on the value of a single or monthly ride fare; 21 (iii) "College" shall mean any institution of higher education, recog- 22 nized and approved by the board of regents of the university of the 23 state of New York, which provides a course of study leading to the 24 granting of a post-secondary degree or diploma; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08670-01-3A. 5233 2 1 (iv) "Vocational Institution" shall mean a business, trade, technical 2 or other occupational school approved as such by the board of regents of 3 the university of the state of New York or accredited by a nationally 4 recognized accrediting agency or association accepted as such by the 5 regents of the state of New York. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.