STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
2621--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to limiting the
number of tolls charged on trucks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1704-a of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by section 1 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the
3 laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. Consistent with the goals of reducing traffic congestion within the
5 central business district and funding capital projects the Triborough
6 bridge and tunnel authority shall have the power, subject to agreements
7 with its bondholders, and applicable federal law to establish and charge
8 variable tolls and fees for vehicles entering or remaining in the
9 central business district at any time and shall have the power, subject
10 to agreements with bondholders, and applicable federal law to make rules
11 and regulations for the establishment and collection of central business
12 district tolls, fees, and other charges. For purposes of establishing a
13 central business district toll or tolls the board shall, at minimum,
14 ensure annual revenues and fees collected under such program, less costs
15 of operation of the same, provide for sufficient revenues into the
16 central business district tolling capital lockbox fund, established
17 pursuant to section five hundred fifty-three-j of the public authorities
18 law necessary to fund fifteen billion dollars for capital projects for
19 the 2020 to 2024 MTA capital program, and any additional revenues above
20 that amount to be available for any successor programs. Additionally, no
21 toll may be established and charged on passenger vehicles registered
22 pursuant to subdivision six of section four hundred one of this chapter
23 and trucks as defined in section one hundred fifty-eight of this chapter
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06417-03-5
S. 2621--A 2
1 more than once per day for purposes of entering the central business
2 district.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
