Bill Text: NY A03741 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing free fare on metropolitan transportation authority transit systems for senior citizens sixty-five years of age or older.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-24 - enacting clause stricken [A03741 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03741-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3741 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing free fare on the metropolitan transportation authority transit systems The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 15-a to read as follows: 3 15-a. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the terms of 4 any contract, the authority, in consultation with the New York city 5 transit authority, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commu- 6 ter Railroad Company, shall establish and implement a no fare program 7 for transportation on New York city transit authority systems, the Long 8 Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company for 9 senior citizens. 10 (b) In order to be eligible for such no fare program the senior citi- 11 zen must be sixty-five years of age or older. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07557-01-7
