New York Assembly Bill A05938 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5938 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NORBER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to establishing a no fare program for transportation on New York city transit authori- ty systems, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company for duly enrolled members of the auxiliary police The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 14-a to read as follows: 3 14-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or the terms of any 4 contract, the authority, in consultation with the New York city transit 5 authority, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Rail- 6 road Company, shall establish and implement a no fare program for trans- 7 portation on New York city transit authority systems, the Long Island 8 Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company for duly 9 enrolled members of the auxiliary police of the city of New York, the 10 county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, the county of 11 Suffolk, or Suffolk county villages. In establishing such program, which 12 has as its goal increased protection and improved safety for its commu- 13 ters, the authority and the New York city transit authority, the Long 14 Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, shall, 15 among other things, consider: (a) requiring such members who ride with- 16 out cost to register with the New York city transit authority, the Long 17 Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company as a 18 condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring such members to indicate 19 during such registration process their regular working hours and the New 20 York city transit authority, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro- 21 North Commuter Railroad Company trains that such members expect to ride; 22 and (c) periodically re-registering and re-validating such members. The 23 authority and the New York city transit authority, the Long Island Rail EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09797-01-5 
 A. 5938 2 1 Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company shall also have the 2 power to consider other matters necessary to carry out the goals and 3 objectives of this subdivision. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 5 have become a law.