STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 279 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the establishment of a fare program which caps the amount of fares charged to riders during an applicable time period The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 20 to read as follows: 3 20. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority shall 4 establish and implement a fare program through One Metro New York which 5 limits the amount of fares a rider may be charged in a time period to 6 the value of an unlimited pass for the same period of time applicable to 7 any such unlimited pass. Upon payment of the fare, a rider shall be 8 charged only up to the applicable value of an unlimited pass for such 9 time period and not more regardless of how many uses the rider accrues 10 during the applicable period. Once charges accrue to the applicable 11 value of the unlimited pass during such time period, additional trips 12 are free for the remainder of that period. For the purposes of this 13 subdivision, "One Metro New York" shall mean the digital fare payment 14 system being implemented by the authority at subway and bus stations 15 within the metropolitan commuter transportation district and the state 16 of New Jersey. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 18 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02238-01-3