Bill Text: NY S09581 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants Rockland county residents a rebate who are charged the central business district toll; establishes the "Rockland county central business district toll account".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S09581 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09581-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9581

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBER  -- 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  granting
          Rockland  county  residents  who  are  charged  the  central  business
          district toll a rebate and to establish the  Rockland  county  central
          business district toll transportation account

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1270-a of the  public  authorities
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f) (1) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, but subject
     4  to  agreements  with  noteholders  and  bondholders, the authority shall
     5  provide residents of the county of Rockland who are charged the  central
     6  business  district  toll pursuant to section seventeen hundred four-a of
     7  the vehicle and traffic law with  a  rebate  from  the  Rockland  county
     8  central  business  district toll account established pursuant to section
     9  twelve hundred seventy-bb of this title.
    10    (2) The Triborough bridge and tunnel authority  shall  promulgate  any
    11  rules  and  regulations necessary for the implementation of subparagraph
    12  one of this paragraph.
    13    § 2. The public authorities law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
    14  1270-bb to read as follows:
    15    §  1270-bb. Rockland county central business district toll account. 1.
    16  The authority shall create and establish a  fund  to  be  known  as  the
    17  "Rockland  county central business district toll account" which shall be
    18  kept separate from and shall not be commingled with any other moneys  of
    19  the authority.
    20    2.  The  metropolitan transportation authority Rockland county central
    21  business district toll account shall consist of  moneys  transferred  by
    22  the  authority  pursuant to paragraph (f) of subdivision four of section
    23  twelve hundred seventy-a of this title.
    24    3. The authority shall provide a rebate to Rockland  county  residents
    25  who  are  charged the central business district toll pursuant to section

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15626-02-4
        S. 9581                             2

     1  seventeen hundred four-a of the vehicle and  traffic  law.  Such  rebate
     2  shall be equivalent to the price of such toll.
     3    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.