STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9364 IN ASSEMBLY March 6, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to require the metropolitan transportation authority to hold an annual public seminar on new innovations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority shall hold an 2 annual public seminar program on a topic relating to new innovations 3 that provide opportunities to discover new and emerging methods as such 4 relate to the purpose of the authority pursuant to section 1264 of the 5 public authorities law. The metropolitan transportation authority shall 6 determine the topic for each annual seminar and shall find qualified 7 presenters to present educational lectures on such topic to seminar 8 attendees. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02782-01-3