Bill Text: NY S06744 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6744 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Includes the "detective investigators" or "rackets investigators" employed in the office of a district attorney located within the county of Nassau, the county of Suffolk, or the city of New York in the MTA Long Island Rail Road no fare program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-06 - PRINT NUMBER 6744A [S06744 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06744-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6744--A
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 12, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. VENDITTO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported
          favorably from said  committee  and  committed  to  the  Committee  on
          Finance  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  including
          certain  district  attorney  detective  investigators  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 "detective investigators" or
    13  "rackets investigators" employed in the office of  a  district  attorney
    14  located  within  the county of Nassau, county of Suffolk, or the city of
    15  New York.  In establishing such program, which has as its goal increased
    16  protection and improved safety for its commuters, the authority and  the
    17  Long Island Rail Road shall, among other things, consider: (a) requiring
    18  police  officers  who ride without cost to register with the Long Island
    19  Rail Road as a condition of riding  without  cost;  (b)  requiring  such
    20  officers  to  indicate  during  such  registration process their regular
    21  working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains  that  such  officers
    22  expect  to  ride;  and (c) periodically re-registering and re-validating
    23  such officers. The authority and the Long Island Rail  Road  shall  also
    24  have  the  power  to  consider  other matters necessary to carry out the
    25  goals and objectives of this section.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14087-02-6