Bill Text: NY S01361 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1361

Bill Title: Relates to E-ZPass availability and waiving deposit fees for a certain period after a rate increase.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-06 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S01361 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01361-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1361--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KENNEDY,  MAY, ADDABBO, HINCHEY -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Transportation  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Transportation in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to  E-ZPass
          availability  and  waiving  deposit  fees for a certain period after a
          rate increase

          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 378-b to read as follows:
     3    § 378-b. E-ZPass availability. 1.  If  the  authority  shall  vote  to
     4  increase  any fees, rentals or charges for the use of the thruway or any
     5  part thereof pursuant to subdivision  eight  of  section  three  hundred
     6  fifty-four of this title for cash or users who do not use E-ZPass to pay
     7  such fees, rentals or charges, the requirement to make a deposit owed to
     8  secure a new E-ZPass transponder shall be waived for a period of no less
     9  than sixty days from the date that the increase takes effect.
    10    2.  Any  retail  location  in  the  state which sells E-ZPass shall be
    11  required to accept cash payment as a valid method to purchase an E-ZPass
    12  or for E-ZPass holders to reload their E-ZPass transponder.
    13    3. For purposes of this section, "E-ZPass" and  "E-ZPass  transponder"
    14  shall  mean a receiver-transmitter issued by the authority in connection
    15  with   electronic toll collection when  such  receiver-transmitter    is
    16  affixed  to  the  exterior  or interior of a vehicle in accordance  with
    17  mounting instructions provided by the authority.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately,  provided  however,  that
    19  subdivision 2 of section 378-b of the public authorities law as added by
    20  section  one of this act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03109-02-4

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     1  shall have become a law. Effective immediately the  addition,  amendment
     2  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
     3  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
     4  completed on or before such date.