STATE OF NEW YORK
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5962
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. R. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to permitting
the governor to direct the metropolitan transportation authority to
provide free transportation to students during a state of emergency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1266-n to read as follows:
3 § 1266-n. State of emergency; student fare. Notwithstanding any other
4 provision of law to the contrary, the governor may, during a declared
5 state of emergency, direct the authority to provide each student who
6 attends kindergarten through twelfth grade in a city having a population
7 of one million or more with a fare reduction equal to the pay-per-ride
8 fare for any and all train and/or bus travel, including but not limited
9 to standard bus service and express bus service, until the end of such
10 state of emergency.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07662-01-5
