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                                    March 19, 2014
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       Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 enacting  the
         "MTA board member attendance act"
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
    2  the "MTA board member attendance act".
    3    S  2.  Subdivision  3 of section 1263 of the public authorities law is
    4  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    5    (E) IN ORDER TO CAST A VOTE ON PROPOSED FARE  HIKES,  A  BOARD  MEMBER
    6  SHALL ATTEND A MAJORITY OF PUBLIC HEARINGS.
    7    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05092-01-3