Bill Text: NY S09329 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Exempts school buses from central business district tolls.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S09329 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09329-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9329

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 13, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  exempting
          school buses from central business district tolls

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1704-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  no  school
     4  bus as defined in section one hundred forty-two of this chapter shall be
     5  charged  a  central  business  district  toll. Application for such toll
     6  exemption shall be made in such manner as prescribed by  the  Triborough
     7  bridge  and  tunnel  authority and shall contain such information as the
     8  authority may reasonably require.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15506-01-4
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