Bill Text: NY A05738 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any public authority that provides bus transportation in the county of Queens to perform a security audit on all of its bus routes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05738 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05738-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5738
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. TITUS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LAVINE --
          read  once  and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
          and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the  public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to  public
          authority accountability and security
          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 2933 to read as follows:
     3    §  2933.  Public  authority  accountability  and  security. Any public
     4  authority which provides surface bus transportation,  or  contracts  for
     5  the  provision  of  surface  bus transportation, in the county of Queens
     6  shall:
     7    1. In cooperation with the police department of the city of New  York,
     8  perform  a  security  audit of all its surface bus transportation routes
     9  within the county of Queens, and shall make a  report  with  recommenda-
    10  tions  as to how it may provide for the increased safety and security of
    11  its riders, to both the  senate  and  assembly  standing  committees  on
    12  corporations, authorities and commissions, on or before March fifteenth,
    13  two thousand twenty-two; and
    14    2.  Develop  and  implement a plan to increase routes and ridership of
    15  such surface bus transportation provided within the county of Queens  by
    16  January fifteenth, two thousand twenty-four.
    17    § 2. 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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