Bill Text: NY S01898 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the metropolitan transportation authority to permit correction officers employed by the department of corrections and community supervision and the department of correction of the city of New York to ride the Long Island railroad at no charge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-17 - PRINT NUMBER 1898A [S01898 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S01898-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1898--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom- mitted 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 committee AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing the metropolitan transportation authority to permit state correction officers and New York city correction officers to ride the Long Island Rail Road at no charge THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of the public authorities 2 law, as amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the terms of any 5 contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, 6 shall establish and implement a no fare program for transportation on 7 the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the city of 8 New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of 9 Suffolk, Suffolk county villages and towns, the division of state 10 police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North 11 Commuter Railroad Company, the New York city housing authority [and], 12 the New York city transit authority, CORRECTION OFFICERS EMPLOYED BY THE 13 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND CORRECTION OFFICERS 14 EMPLOYED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. In 15 establishing such program, which has as its goal increased protection 16 and improved safety for its commuters, the authority and the Long Island 17 Rail Road shall, among other things, consider: (a) requiring police 18 officers who ride without cost to register with the Long Island Rail 19 Road as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring such officers EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01771-02-4 S. 1898--A 2 1 to indicate during such registration process their regular working hours 2 and the Long Island Rail Road trains that such officers expect to ride; 3 and (c) periodically re-registering and re-validating such officers. The 4 authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall also have the power to 5 consider other matters necessary to carry out the goals and objectives 6 of this section. 7 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.