Bill Text: NY A07861 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits public transportation authorities in regions with 500,000 or more residents from procuring certain commuter vehicles which use fossil fuels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-18 - print number 7861a [A07861 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7861

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 24, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to prohibiting
          certain  public  transportation  authorities  from  procuring  certain
          commuter vehicles which use fossil fuels

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2879 of the public authorities law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (q) to read as follows:
     3    (q) Public transportation  authorities  serving  metropolitan  regions
     4  with  a cumulative population of five hundred thousand or more residents
     5  shall be prohibited  from  procuring  commuter  buses,  passenger  vans,
     6  liveries,  and  other commuter vehicles which travel primarily on public
     7  roads which use fossil fuels, as defined by section 10-103 of the energy
     8  law, on and after January first, two thousand twenty-two.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10949-01-9