Bill Text: NY A08634 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8634 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the establishment of a discounted-fare program for Long Island rail road weekly and monthly passes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-09-01 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A08634 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08634-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8634
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    September 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LUPINACCI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT in relation to the establishment of a discounted fare program for
          Long  Island  rail  road  weekly  and  monthly  passes  during  Amtrak
          construction;  and providing for the repeal of such provision upon the
          expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the metropol-
     2  itan transportation authority and any  of  its  subsidiary  corporations
     3  shall  establish  and  implement a temporary discounted fare program for
     4  all weekly and monthly Long Island rail  road  passes.  Such  discounted
     5  fare  program  shall  reduce the fare for weekly and monthly Long Island
     6  rail road passes by twenty-five percent,  and  shall  continue  for  the
     7  duration of Amtrak repair work disrupting Long Island rail road service,
     8  until the notification of completion of such work.
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately and shall be deemed
    10  repealed upon notification of completion of repair work as  provided  in
    11  section  one of this act; provided that the chairman of the metropolitan
    12  transportation authority shall  notify  the  legislative  bill  drafting
    13  commission  upon  the notification of completion of repair work provided
    14  for in section one of this act in order that the commission may maintain
    15  an accurate and timely effective data base of the official text  of  the
    16  laws  of  the  state  of  New  York  in  furtherance of effectuating the
    17  provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of  the
    18  public officers law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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