Bill Text: NY S01417 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to establish a student fare program for trains and buses which discounts three train and/or bus fares each weekday equal to the standard pay-per-ride fare.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01417-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1417

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 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
          metropolitan  transportation  authority  to  establish  a student fare
          program for trains and buses

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 1266-l of the public authorities law, as added by
     2  chapter 668 of the laws of 2022, is renumbered 1266-m and a new  section
     3  1266-n to read as follows:
     4    § 1266-n. Student fare program. Notwithstanding any other provision of
     5  law  to  the  contrary,  the  authority  shall  establish a student fare
     6  program. Such program shall provide each student  in  a  city  having  a
     7  population  of  one  million  or  more, who attends kindergarten through
     8  twelfth grade and who resides a half mile or more from the  school  such
     9  student  attends,  with  a fare reduction equal to the standard pay-per-
    10  ride fare for three fares between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. each  weekday
    11  for  any  and  all train and/or bus travel, including but not limited to
    12  standard bus service and express bus service. Any difference between the
    13  standard pay-per-ride fare and the required fare for such service  shall
    14  be paid by such student.
    15    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    16  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    17  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    18  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    19  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.


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