Senate Bill S3721

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Permits certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the Long Island Rail Road without cost

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S3721 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4334
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1266, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7422, A10001
2019-2020: S3945, A2753

2017-S3721 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes and requires the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, to implement a program to permit certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the Long Island Rail Road without cost.

2017-S3721 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3721 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3721
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 26, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  authorizing
   and  requiring the metropolitan transportation authority, in consulta-
   tion with the Long Island Rail Road, to implement a program to  permit
   certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the
   Long Island Rail Road without cost
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of  the  public  authorities
 law,  as  amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
 as follows:
   14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the  terms  of  any
 contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road,
 shall  establish  and  implement a no fare program for transportation on
 the Long Island Rail Road for police officers [employed by the  city  of
 New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of
 Suffolk,  Suffolk  county  villages  and  towns,  the  division of state
 police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey,  the  Metro-North
 Commuter  Railroad  Company, the New York city housing authority and the
 New York city transit authority] AS DEFINED BY SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIM-
 INAL PROCEDURE LAW AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS. In establishing such
 program, which has as its goal increased protection and improved  safety
 for  its  commuters,  the authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall,
 among other things, consider: (a) requiring police officers AND NEW YORK
 CITY FIRE MARSHALS who ride without  cost  to  register  with  the  Long
 Island  Rail  Road  as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring
 such officers to indicate during such registration process their regular
 working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains  that  such  officers
 expect  to  ride;  and (c) periodically re-registering and re-validating
 such officers AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS.  The  authority  and  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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