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Senate Bill S1601

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the MTA to rename the Eltingville transit center the Iraq War and Afghanistan War Veterans' Memorial Transit Center

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2025-S1601 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3751
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Highways
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4286
2017-2018: S5081, A6148
2019-2020: S464, A7157
2021-2022: S4489, A6802
2023-2024: S2825, A4726, A6035

2025-S1601 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the MTA to rename the Eltingville transit center the Iraq War and Afghanistan War Veterans' Memorial Transit Center; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

2025-S1601 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1601 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1601
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. LANZA, SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 AN ACT in relation to directing the metropolitan transportation authori-
   ty to rename the Eltingville transit center the Iraq War and Afghanis-
   tan  War  Veterans'  Memorial  Transit  Center;  and providing for the
   repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Upon a determination by the metropolitan transportation
 authority or the New York city transit authority that  sufficient  funds
 have  been  committed to it specifically for such purpose, the metropol-
 itan transportation authority, the public benefit corporation created by
 section 1263 of the public authorities law, and the New York city trans-
 it authority, the public benefit corporation created by section 1201  of
 the  public authorities law, shall use such specifically committed funds
 to rename the Eltingville transit center of the metropolitan transporta-
 tion authority to the Iraq War and Afghanistan  War  Veterans'  Memorial
 Transit  Center. The MTA shall ensure that all signs and any other items
 issued by the MTA are updated to accurately reflect the new name of  the
 station within ten months.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed after the signs and any other items described in section
 one of this act are accurately updated. The chief executive  officer  of
 the  metropolitan  transportation authority or president of the New York
 city transit  authority  shall  notify  the  legislative  bill  drafting
 commission upon the completion of such updates in order that the commis-
 sion  may  maintain  an  accurate  and timely effective data base of the
 official text of the laws of the state of New  York  in  furtherance  of
 effectuating  the  provisions  of  section 44 of the legislative law and
 section 70-b of the public officers law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02468-01-5

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