Bill Text: NY A09807 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the board to submit a recommendation regarding the central business district toll amounts to the legislature and also to recommend a privacy risk plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-26 - print number 9807a [A09807 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9807

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 13, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in  relation  to  the  board
          submitting  a  recommendation  regarding the central business district
          toll amounts to the legislature and recommending a privacy risk plan

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 553-k of the public author-
     2  ities  law, as added by section 8 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59
     3  of the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
     4    2. The board shall make a recommendation regarding the  central  busi-
     5  ness  district toll amounts to be established pursuant to article forty-
     6  four-C of the vehicle and traffic law, which shall include  a  variable-
     7  pricing  structure, no [sooner] later than [November] October fifteenth,
     8  two thousand twenty [and no later than December thirty-first, two  thou-
     9  sand  twenty,  or  no  later  than thirty days before a central business
    10  district tolling program is initiated, whichever is later]. Such  recom-
    11  mendation  shall  be  submitted  to  the legislature for approval.   The
    12  legislature shall vote on such recommendation by  January  thirty-first,
    13  two thousand twenty-one. The authority shall only be permitted to estab-
    14  lish  central business toll district amounts if approved by the legisla-
    15  ture. If approved by  the  legislature,  such  recommendation  shall  be
    16  submitted to the board of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority for
    17  consideration  before  the  Triborough bridge and tunnel authority board
    18  may approve central business district toll amounts that  may  be  estab-
    19  lished and adopted.
    20    3.  For  purposes  of recommending a central business district toll or
    21  tolls in addition to the goal of reducing  traffic  within  the  central
    22  business  district,  the  board  shall,  at  minimum, ensure that annual
    23  revenues and fees collected under  such  program,  less  costs  of  such
    24  program, provide for revenues into the central business district tolling
    25  capital  lockbox  fund,  established  pursuant  to  section five hundred
    26  fifty-three-j of this [chapter] title, necessary to fund fifteen billion
    27  dollars for capital projects for the 2020 to 2024 capital  program,  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14855-01-0
        A. 9807                             2

     1  any  additional  revenues  above  that  amount  to  be available for any
     2  successor program. The board shall consider for purposes of  its  recom-
     3  mendations,  factors  including  but  not  limited to, traffic patterns,
     4  traffic  mitigation  measures,  operating  costs,  public impact, public
     5  safety, hardships, vehicle type, discounts  for  motorcycles,  peak  and
     6  off-peak  rates  and environmental impacts, including but not limited to
     7  air quality and emissions trends. The board shall recommend a  plan  for
     8  credits,  discounts,  and/or  exemptions  for  tolls paid on bridges and
     9  crossings which shall be informed by a traffic study associated with the
    10  impact of any such credits, discounts and/or exemptions  on  the  recom-
    11  mended  toll.  The  board shall recommend a plan for credits, discounts,
    12  and/or exemptions for  for-hire  vehicles  defined,  and  subject  to  a
    13  surcharge  imposed  by,  article twenty-nine-C of the tax law for a for-
    14  hire transportation trip based on factors including, but not limited to,
    15  initial market entry costs associated  with  licensing  and  regulation,
    16  comparative contribution to congestion in the central business district,
    17  and  general  industry  impact. The board shall recommend a privacy risk
    18  plan in relation to the collection, processing, transfer and  disclosure
    19  of personal data, including, but not limited to, historical or real-time
    20  geolocation  data, under such a program and require that use, disclosure
    21  or access to an individual's personal data  shall  require  affirmative,
    22  express  consent  of  the individual. The board shall produce a detailed
    23  report that provides information regarding the board's review and analy-
    24  sis for purposes of establishing its recommendations, including but  not
    25  limited  to,  all of the considerations referred to in this subdivision.
    26  The board shall not recommend a toll that provides for charging  passen-
    27  ger  vehicles  registered  pursuant  to  subdivision six of section four
    28  hundred one of the vehicle and traffic law more than once per day.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.