Bill Text: NY A00147 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to post signage over mass transit seats indicating that individuals should give up their seats for the elderly, pregnant and disabled; provides such signage shall be conspicuously posted and visible from all seats; costs and expenses paid through appropriated funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to ways and means [A00147 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00147-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           147

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL,  DE LA ROSA  --  read once and
          referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities  law,  in  relation  to  priority
          seating for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passengers

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

     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1266-l to read as follows:
     3    § 1266-l. Priority seating for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passen-
     4  gers.  1. The authority shall post signage, which may take the form of a
     5  sticker, in each subway car and bus, in the manner and of the  size  and
     6  number,  sufficient  to  be  viewed  by  passengers in all parts of such
     7  subway car and bus which states, either graphically or in the  languages
     8  the authority deems appropriate: "Please give up your seat for pregnant,
     9  elderly, or disabled passengers."
    10    2.  The  authority  shall  post  signage, which may take the form of a
    11  sticker, designating certain  seats  in  such  subway  car  and  bus  as
    12  reserved  for  pregnant,  elderly  or  disabled passengers. Such signage
    13  shall state, either graphically or in the languages the authority  deems
    14  appropriate:  "These seats are reserved for pregnant, elderly, and disa-
    15  bled passengers."
    16    3. In addition to the signage required in subdivisions one and two  of
    17  this section, such information shall be included in any LED banner signs
    18  and any announcements made in subway cars or buses.
    19    4. The authority shall not pay any costs or expenses related to prior-
    20  ity  seating signage for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passengers from
    21  its operating or capital budgets and may only implement priority seating
    22  signage for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passengers with funds appro-
    23  priated to it by the state of New York for such purpose.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.

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