Bill Text: NY S00311 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the port authority shall prohibit nonstop flights to or from points beyond one thousand five hundred miles, except on Saturdays and flights to Denver, Colorado, from flying to or from LaGuardia airport, an air terminal of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-24 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S00311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00311-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           311

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT to amend chapter 802 of the laws of 1947, relating to facilitat-
          ing the financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New
          York Authority, in relation to prohibiting certain flights at  LaGuar-
          dia airport

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

     1    Section 1. Chapter 802 of the laws of 1947, relating  to  facilitating
     2  the  financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New York
     3  Authority, is amended by adding a new section 4-b to read as follows:
     4    § 4-b. No nonstop flights to or from points beyond one  thousand  five
     5  hundred  miles, except on Saturdays and flights to Denver, Colorado, may
     6  fly to or from LaGuardia airport, an air terminal of the Port  Authority
     7  of New York and New Jersey.
     8    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
     9  state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with  this
    10  act,  but  if  the  state  of New Jersey shall have already enacted such
    11  legislation, this act shall take effect immediately; provided  that  the
    12  chairman  of  the port authority of New Jersey shall notify the legisla-
    13  tive bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of  the  enactment  of
    14  the  legislation  provided  for in section one of this act in order that
    15  the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective database of
    16  the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
    17  effectuating the provisions of section 44 of  the  legislative  law  and
    18  section 70-b of the public officers law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03370-01-1