Bill Text: NY A02656 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a fund to be used to research certain bridges being equipped with suicide barriers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - referred to ways and means [A02656 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02656-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2656

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 21, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. SAYEGH, CRUZ, ROSENTHAL, SHIMSKY, STIRPE, RAGA,
          SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the  Committee
          on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to creating a fund to
          be used to research equipping certain bridges with suicide barriers

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

     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  99-ss to read as follows:
     3    §  99-ss. Bridge suicide barrier fund.  1. There is hereby established
     4  in the joint custody of the state comptroller and  the  commissioner  of
     5  taxation  and  finance a bridge suicide barrier fund which shall consist
     6  of all monies appropriated to such fund.
     7    2. Monies in the bridge suicide barrier fund  shall  be  utilized  for
     8  studying  any  project involving the construction of a new bridge or the
     9  replacement of a bridge with a history of suicide attempts  and  how  to
    10  include in the new or replacement bridge a suicide barrier.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





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