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Senate Bill S8639

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for certain detective investigators or rackets investigators for the Nassau county district attorney

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2025-S8639 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1266, Pub Auth L

2025-S8639 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds to the no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road certain detective investigators or rackets investigators employed by the Nassau county district attorney.

2025-S8639 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8639 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8639
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 7, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 the  no  fare
   program  for  transportation  on the Long Island Rail Road for certain
   detective investigators or rackets investigators
 
   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 AND "DETECTIVE INVESTIGATORS" OR
 "RACKETS INVESTIGATORS" EMPLOYED IN THE OFFICE OF  A  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY
 LOCATED  WITHIN  THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, OR THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK.  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  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. The authority and the Long Island Rail  Road  shall  also
 have  the  power  to  consider  other matters necessary to carry out the
 goals and objectives of this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14000-01-5

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