Bill Text: NJ S3448 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires NJT to continue to issue and honor rail passenger service and motorbus regular route service tickets with no expiration date.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-17 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Transportation Committee [S3448 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S3448-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator CARMEN F. AMATO, JR.
District 9 (Ocean)
Senator RAJ MUKHERJI
District 32 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Requires NJT to continue to issue and honor rail passenger service and motorbus regular route service tickets with no expiration date.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning New Jersey Transit Corporation rail passenger service and motorbus regular route service tickets and supplementing P.L.1979, c.150 (C.27:25-1 et al.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the New Jersey Transit Corporation shall:
(1) continue to issue:
(a) one-way tickets for rail passenger service, including light-rail service, and motorbus regular route service bearing no expiration date; and
(b) 10-trip tickets for rail passenger service bearing no expiration date; and
(2) permit individuals who have previously purchased a ticket for rail passenger service, including light-rail service, or motorbus regular route service bearing no expiration date, regardless of the date of purchase, to utilize the unused ticket for rail passenger service, including light-rail service, or motorbus regular route service, as applicable.
b. Within 90 days of the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the corporation shall reinstate any ticket for rail passenger service, including light-rail service, or motorbus regular route service issued by the corporation that bears no expiration date and that expired as a result of a corporation policy implemented by the corporation prior to the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the New Jersey Transit Corporation (corporation) to continue to issue: (1) one-way tickets for rail passenger service, including light-rail service, and motorbus regular route service bearing no expiration date; and (2) 10-trip tickets for rail passenger service bearing no expiration date. The bill also requires the corporation to permit individuals who previously purchased a rail passenger service, including light-rail service, or motorbus regular route service ticket bearing no expiration date to utilize the unused ticket.
Within 90 days of the bill's effective date, the corporation is required to reinstate any rail passenger service, including light-rail service, or motorbus regular route service ticket issued by the corporation that bears no expiration date and that expired as a result of a corporation policy implemented by the corporation prior to the bill's effective date.
