Bill Text: NY A05360 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the New York city department of transportation and New York city department of housing preservation and development, to study the transportation and housing needs of Randalls and Wards Islands.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05360 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05360-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5360

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority to study  the
          transportation and housing needs of Randalls and Wards Islands

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

     1    Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority, in  consultation
     2  with  the  New  York city department of transportation and New York city
     3  department of housing preservation  and  development,  shall  conduct  a
     4  comprehensive  study of the transportation and housing needs of Randalls
     5  and Wards Islands. Such study shall include,  but  not  be  limited  to,
     6  increasing  the frequency of bus service from Randalls and Wards Islands
     7  to all connected boroughs and the development of affordable  housing  on
     8  Randalls and Wards Islands.
     9    §  2. The metropolitan transportation authority, New York city depart-
    10  ment of transportation and New York city department of housing preserva-
    11  tion and development, shall jointly prepare  a  report  which  shall  be
    12  submitted  to  the  governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
    13  speaker of the assembly, the minority  leader  of  the  senate  and  the
    14  minority  leader  of  the  assembly, within one year after the effective
    15  date of this act, containing findings and recommendations for  potential
    16  legislative  and  regulatory  actions  to address the transportation and
    17  housing needs of Randalls and Wards Islands.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



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