Authorizes the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Long Island Rail Road Company to discontinue payments to Amtrak to ensure that impacted commuters are fully compensated due to unscheduled delays and cancellations caused by inadequate maintenance of the Penn Station Complex and tunnels for the period commencing March 24, 2017 through December 31, 2017.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority and the Long Island Rail Road Company to discontinue
payments to Amtrak
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the Metro-
2 politan Transportation Authority and the Long Island Rail Road Company
3 shall discontinue any and all payments to Amtrak, as needed, to ensure
4 that impacted commuters are fully compensated due to unscheduled delays
5 and cancellations caused by inadequate maintenance of the Penn Station
6 Complex and tunnels, for the period commencing March 24, 2017 through
7 December 31, 2017, unless service is restored to ninety-five percent
8 on-time performance for trains arriving and departing at Penn Station,
9 for a period of no less than one month. Any and all payments withheld
10 shall be refunded to impacted commuters in the form of free rail tick-
11 ets.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05129-01-9
