Bill Text: NY S03228 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the metropolitan transportation authority providing signs that would give the public immediate instruction on how to react to a fall onto the transit facility tracks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03228-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3228--A
            Cal. No. 1075

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported
          favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  report,  amended  on
          first  report,  ordered  to  a  second  report  and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of second report

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          New York city  transit  authority  advisory  council  to  investigate,
          report  and  make  recommendations on instructing the public on how to
          react when an individual falls onto authority facility tracks

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

     1    Section  1. Section 1204-e of the public authorities law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. On or before December  thirty-first,  two  thousand  nineteen,  the
     4  council  shall  investigate,  report  and  make  recommendations  to the
     5  authority board related to signage to instruct  the  public  on  how  to
     6  react  when  an  individual  falls  onto authority facility tracks. Such
     7  report and recommendations shall include, but not be limited to, consid-
     8  eration of an educational  campaign  for  the  public  including  public
     9  service   announcements  within  and  without  subway  cars  and  subway
    10  stations, the costs of signage for all transit facilities, and any other
    11  issues the council deems relevant, such as  potential  liability  issues
    12  for  the authority, instructions for the public on how to react to other
    13  emergencies and alternative methods of alerting the  public  on  how  to
    14  react when an individual falls on transit facility tracks. Such investi-
    15  gation,  report  and  recommendations shall be made public by posting on
    16  the council website and any other method the council deems appropriate.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01238-03-9