Establishes a public transportation safety grant program and public transportation safety grant fund for the purpose of enhancing safety infrastructure at public transit facilities throughout the state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10916
IN ASSEMBLY
April 8, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation
to establishing a public transportation safety grant program and fund;
and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 845-f
2 to read as follows:
3 § 845-f. Public transportation safety grant program. 1. There is here-
4 by established within the division a public transportation safety grant
5 program to be administered by the commissioner to award grants for the
6 purpose of enhancing safety infrastructure at public transit facilities
7 throughout the state. Grants shall be awarded to counties on a compet-
8 itive basis, and counties shall work in coordination with county sher-
9 iffs' departments or local law enforcement agencies, as well as the city
10 of New York, to develop and implement plans to enhance safety infras-
11 tructure at public transportation facilities within their jurisdictions.
12 Fifty percent of the funds to be appropriated for the public transporta-
13 tion safety grant program shall be made available to the city of New
14 York and the remaining fifty percent of such funds shall be made avail-
15 able for counties outside of the city of New York.
16 2. The commissioner shall develop rules and regulations as necessary
17 to implement the public transportation safety grant program, including
18 but not limited to: an application process, the standards and procedures
19 for application approval, definitions of eligible projects, maximum
20 grant amounts, audit and reporting requirements, and any other rules or
21 regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this
22 section.
23 3. Subject to the availability of funds within the public transporta-
24 tion safety grant fund pursuant to section ninety-nine-uu of the state
25 finance law, the commissioner may award grants for up to seventy-five
26 percent of the total project approved costs of a project.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-uu to
2 read as follows:
3 § 99-uu. Public transportation safety grant fund. 1. There is hereby
4 established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
5 commissioner of the division of criminal justice services a special fund
6 to be known as the "public transportation safety grant fund".
7 2. Moneys of the public transportation safety grant fund shall be
8 available to the commissioner of the division of criminal justice
9 services for the administration and purposes of the public transporta-
10 tion safety grant program established by section eight hundred forty-
11 five-f of the executive law.
12 3. The fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated for its purpose
13 and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund
14 or source pursuant to law.
15 4. Moneys in the public transportation safety grant fund shall be kept
16 separately from and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the
17 joint or sole custody of the state comptroller or the commissioner of
18 the division of criminal justice services.
19 5. Moneys in the public transportation safety grant fund shall be
20 payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of the state comptroller
21 on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner of the division
22 of criminal justice services.
23 § 3. The sum of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), or so much
24 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the public trans-
25 portation safety grant fund out of any moneys in the state treasury in
26 the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account, not other-
27 wise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of
28 carrying out the provisions of this act.
29 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
30 the date on which it shall have become a law.
