Bill Text: NY S03720 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3720 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to including Nassau county fire marshals in the MTA Long Island Rail Road no fare program; includes chief fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals and fire marshal trainees in Nassau county in the no fare program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-22 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S03720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03720-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3720
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 26, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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 including the
          Nassau county fire marshals in the MTA Long Island  Railroad  no  fare
          program
          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 and chief fire  marshals,  assistant
    13  chief  fire  marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals and fire
    14  marshal trainees in Nassau county.  In establishing such program,  which
    15  has  as its goal increased protection and improved safety for its commu-
    16  ters, the authority and the Long Island Rail  Road  shall,  among  other
    17  things, consider: (a) requiring police officers who ride without cost to
    18  register with the Long Island Rail Road as a condition of riding without
    19  cost;  (b)  requiring such officers to indicate during such registration
    20  process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains
    21  that such officers expect to ride; and (c)  periodically  re-registering
    22  and  re-validating such officers. The authority and the Long Island Rail
    23  Road shall also have the power to consider other  matters  necessary  to
    24  carry out the goals and objectives of this section.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05671-01-7