STATE OF NEW YORK
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2656
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, CRUZ, ROSENTHAL, SHIMSKY, STIRPE, RAGA,
SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to creating a fund to
be used to research equipping certain bridges with suicide barriers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
2 99-ss to read as follows:
3 § 99-ss. Bridge suicide barrier fund. 1. There is hereby established
4 in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of
5 taxation and finance a bridge suicide barrier fund which shall consist
6 of all monies appropriated to such fund.
7 2. Monies in the bridge suicide barrier fund shall be utilized for
8 studying any project involving the construction of a new bridge or the
9 replacement of a bridge with a history of suicide attempts and how to
10 include in the new or replacement bridge a suicide barrier.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02702-01-5
